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This extended editorial explores the growing range of stratagems devised by journal editors to boost their Journal Impact Factor (JIF) and the consequ…
Cameron Neylon: Metrics play a growing role in managing research. But to understand their limitations, we need to draw on the humanities.
Sometimes it’s the little things that count. Which is why I have started asking journals to publish their citation distributions alongside their impact factors and applauded the recent decision of the EMBO Journal to do just that. I am happy to do so again on this brand new website devoted to responsible metrics. The Responsible Metrics website emerged as an off-shoot from the deliberations UK […]
Post per-article citation distributions to point out how bogus JIF is.
Due to differences in citation practices amongst scientific disciplines, existing research on a possible open access citation advantage remains limited. A new study seeks to overcome these limitati…
The low level of research funding for the social sciences in the US is likely to have a direct and negative effect on researchers’ ability to pay the article processing charges associated wit…
We examined the publication records of a cohort of 168 life scientists in the field of ecology and evolutionary biology to assess gender differences in research performance. Clear discrepancies in publication rate between men and women appear very early in their careers and this has consequences for the subsequent citation of their work. We show that a recently proposed index designed to rank scientists fairly is in fact strongly biased against female researchers, and advocate a modified index to assess men and women on a more equitable basis.
Another Elsevier scam journal. Citation gaming via self-citation.
Atchison A & Bull J (2015) Will OA get me cited? An analysis of the efficacy of Open Access publishing in Political Science. PS: Political Science & Politics, (forthcoming). Donovan JM, […]
Another one on rank-gaming.
Another way to game impact factor: delay print publication so the citations pile up, b/c JIF is calculated from print publication date. Clever. Evil.
Another way to game rankings: hire a crapload of highly-cited adjuncts. Disgusting.
Sad story of JIF: perfectly good journal shuts down because it publishes 10 articles/yr, and to get an IF you have to publish 20.
High-impact-factor Syndrome
Open access legal scholarship generates a prolific discussion, but few empirical details have been available to describe the scholarly impact of providing unres