Citation counts are a great article-level bibliometric. They don’t lie – they tell us how often a particular paper has been cited by other papers. However, and perhaps because this is such a convenient metric to generate, we may be tempted to extrapolate beyond the data and give false meanings to citation counts. Let’s think […]
The journal impact factor (JIF), or simply ‘impact factor’, was introduced in 1975 as a metric to rank consumers’ levels of interest in scientific journals. An early application was to assist librarians in deciding which subscriptions they should purchase for their institutions. Therefore, it was designed as a market research tool and was never intended
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How do you know what constitutes ‘good science?’ It’s tough and yet that is the task that faces many researchers and institutions. Funders need to make those judgements in order to decide who does and doesn’t get support for their work. Institutions have an obligation to hire and promote on the basis of how good
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