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| Why are open access supporters defending the impact factor? |
| Maybe I'm naive. Maybe I'm just too thick to get it. But over the last few days I've been on the receiving end of quite some flak for my criticisms of Thomson Scientific's impact factor (IF) by, of all poeple, open acces...[more] |
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| Posted on Wednesday 03 September 2008 - 21:27:21 |
| Citations: up or down, which is it now? |
 There has been a lot of discussion about a recent Science paper on the effect of online access to scientific publications. In the abstract, the author claims that with time, fewer and fewer articles and journals are cite...[more] |
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| Posted on Friday 29 August 2008 - 10:20:22 |
| 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] |
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| Posted on Thursday 13 April 2006 - 17:31:15 |
| Why is the Impact Factor still around? |
| Much has been written about the Impact Factor, a bibliographic measure originally developed in the 1960s by Eugene Garfield as a tool to rank scholarly journals according to their mean citation rate and now published eve...[more] |
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| Posted on Friday 20 February 2009 - 15:38:36 |
| Citation statistics |
| I just came across a post from Coturnix in which he refers to a nice little piece of software which uses Google Scholar to calculate some citation statistics. I went and downloaded Publish or Perish right away and tried ...[more] |
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| Posted on Thursday 04 October 2007 - 17:21:13 |
| Thomson Scientific fights back |
| In the wake of the hard-hitting article by Rockefeller University Press editors in the Journal of Cell Biology (JCB), in which they describe how Thomson's ubiquitous impact factor twice flunked a scientific test, ...[more] |
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| Posted on Thursday 03 January 2008 - 18:34:56 |
| Thomson Scientific (ISI) flunks scientific test. Twice. |
| I just came across an article in the Journal of Cell Biology (of all places) which could be the first solid nail in the coffin of that dreaded, vile impact factor. What is the impact factor? For the uninitiated, the impac...[more] |
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| Posted on Thursday 20 December 2007 - 10:21:58 |
| Yet more trouble for the impact factor |
| After January's double whammie for Thomson Scientific and its coveted impact factor (here and here), my favorite journal, PLoS ONE has now published a paper which spells even more trouble for the company. The authors co...[more] |
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| Posted on Wednesday 05 March 2008 - 20:38:33 |
| BIF: bibliographic impact factor or brain irritability factor? |
| The journal "Epidemiology" has a series of great articles on why we need to get rid of Thomson Scientific's Impact Factor. I've reported about this ridiculously influencial number before and how irrational, stupid and de...[more] |
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| Posted on Friday 09 May 2008 - 10:30:34 |
| A special issue on bibliometrics |
| Now here's a must-read for anyone interested in entering a science career. The journal "Ethics in Science and Environmental Politics" has just published a special issue called "The use and...[more] |
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| Posted on Tuesday 03 June 2008 - 17:29:09 |
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