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| What journal rank has to do with music, movies and restaurants |
| For the uninitiated, much of what follows must seem like a bizarre debate: many scientists really want to know if a scientific article is worth reading before they decide to read it. This in itself is not bizarre, yet, a...[more] |
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| Posted on Thursday 15 November 2012 - 13:22:42 |
| Scientific progress quantified |
| Scientists measure. Scientists count. Scientists quantify. It's what they do. It's their job. Yet, as Einstein has pointed out long ago "...[more] |
| metrics impact factor science nature |
| Posted on Thursday 23 July 2009 - 11:26:19 |
| My LSE guest post on scholarly publishing |
| The London School of Economics and Political Science runs a blog called "The Impact of Social Sciences". They have invited me to write a guest post, to which I agreed and the post went live today. I'm reposting it here, ...[more] |
| scholarly publishing impact factor alert service |
| Posted on Wednesday 09 November 2011 - 13:04:13 |
| Why Thomson's Bibliographic Impact Factor (BIF) is dead |
| Despite the recent downpour of evidence against the use of Thomson's BIF, I still get comments from people such as "However, IFs are still the most used way of evaluating a researcher's career and value. Even if we find ...[more] |
| Thomson Scientific impact factor citation statistics bibliometrics citation metrics journal ranking |
| Posted on Wednesday 23 July 2008 - 15:08:54 |
| Journal rank alive and well at DFG site visit |
| I spent the past two days in Cologne on a site visit for a a large collaborative research center. I sat on a panel of 10 reviewers who reviewed a total of 18 grant proposals. The DFG asked us to not only judge the merit ...[more] |
| journal rank impact factor publishing GlamMagz |
| Posted on Wednesday 24 April 2013 - 22:16:35 |
| Why do we still publish scientific papers? |
| This question is directed towards people who think that ranking ~24,000 scientific journals according to a negotiable, irreproducible and mathematically unsound measure is a practical way of sorting the wheat from the ch...[more] |
| science publishing impact factor journal rank |
| Posted on Monday 10 August 2009 - 15:37:35 |
| Yale researcher in Science: "High-Profile Journals Not Worth the Trouble" |
| Now this letter to the journal Science by Yale cell biologist Joel Rosenbaum (what a great website!) deserves to be quoted in full: |
| science publishing impact factor science |
| Posted on Friday 22 August 2008 - 08:54:39 |
| Journals a threat to science? |
| "Universities get the publication process they deserve. They have the financial power to change it to suit the twenty-first century – they haven’t done so. They must.", says Peter Murray-Rust in his blog post on the Time...[more] |
| science publishing impact factor murray-rust journals |
| Posted on Thursday 13 August 2009 - 17:03:43 |
| Impact factor predicts unreliability of research papers |
 Last week, we've already seen that the most prominent way of ranking scholarly journals, Thomson Reuters' Impact Factor (IF), isn't a very good measure for predicting how many citations your scientific paper will attract...[more] |
| publishing impact factor reliability correlation |
| Posted on Monday 26 December 2011 - 23:26:04 |
| getCited - a great idea doomed to fail |
| I just stumbled accross getCited.org. It's a site that has been up and running since 2000, but has received only little attention. It's sort of a wiki, with everybody being able to edit everything. But this site is for r...[more] |
| getCITED citation metrics impact factor |
| Posted on Thursday 13 April 2006 - 17:31:15 |