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Many scientists attempt to publish their work in a journal with the highest possible journal impact factor (IF). Despite widespread condemnation of the use of journal IFs to assess the significance of published work, these numbers continue to be widely misused in publication, hiring, funding, and promotion decisions (1, 2).
The apparent trend has been on the rise over the past two decades.
Recently, NIH Scientists B. Ian Hutchins and colleagues have (pre)published “The Relative Citation Ratio (RCR). A new metric that uses citation rates to measure influence at the article level”. [N…
(a guest post from Cameron Neylon, Curtin University) in response to the open citations experiment In Douglas Adams’ Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy a massive computer is created to give the answer to the ultimate question, of life the universe and everything. After ten million years of computing it gives its answer: ONE: Well? DEEP […]
Research evaluation in the sciences has a gender problem and the indicators we use to understand academic impact are faulty.
A couple of month ago, I was discussing with senior colleagues about the conditions to (have a chance to) be tenured in Belgium. One of them told that the fi...
Rutgers professors vote a second time to seek access to and limits on use of data from Academic Analytics -- as faculty advocates vow to take such criticism to other campuses.
David Matthews examines the approach of ResearchGate, Academia.edu and Mendeley to profit, user data and open access publishing
Rutgers faculty members, citing philosophical concerns and errors, are pushing back against the use of Academic Analytics to evaluate their productivity.
The review of metrics enjoins universities not to drift with the ‘metric tide’. To do this requires a united front of strategic leadership across the sector, argues HEFCE’s Steven Hill. Rathe…
We present here evidence for the existence of a citation advantage within astrophysics for papers that link to data. Using simple measures based on publication data from NASA Astrophysics Data...
Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve taken a brief look at Impact Factor (IF) and some of the criticisms that are levelled at it. As promised, I’m going to report on some of the feedback that we’ve received, particularly on the Twitter hashtag #IFwhatswrong. The week before last, I focused on one of the […]
One interesting phenomenon that emerges from the typical structure of social networks is the friendship paradox. It states that your friends have on average more friends than you do. Recent...
In last week’s perspective I asked the question ‘What’s wrong with the Impact Factor? Part 1’. Anybody who’s followed the debate over the years will be familiar with many of the common objections to the metric – Here’s an example of a blog post on the subject. But how valid are the common objections? Does […]
One in five academics from a range of fields say they have come under pressure from journals to pad out their papers with unnecessary citations to get published, a large survey has found. Analysis of 6,672…