What is Digitometrics? An interview with Tim Brody

Abstract

Tim Brody, a PhD candidate in the Intelligence, Agents, Multimedia Group at the University of Southampton, has been involved in the Open Access movement for four years. My first question to Tim was: what exactly does the term Digitometrics mean? Tim was introduced to the work with Digitometrics in the Open Citation project, which he was part of in his undergraduate project. He tells me that Digitometrics is “bibliometrics for the online age”. You combine the results from citation analysis with web logs, counting the number of times an article has been downloaded, to get an article's impact.