Hi everyone, this last summer-break edition ties in with the previous edition. Last week I’ve wrote over research to make publication metadata from the free publishing service CEUR-WS available in a FAIR fashion , such that the data can be explored.

At the beginning of June, Clarivate Analytics, vendor of the Impact database Web of Science, among others, informed about the launch of the Publisher Analytics Report. The press release mentions the following features prominently: “The ready-to-use reports provide a snapshot of journals’ performance and inform competitor analysis. They will help publishers to easily plan robust, evidence-based strategies, based on the publisher-independent”.