Rethinking the Journal Impact Factor and Publishing in the Digital Age
Authors : Mark S. Nestor, Daniel Fischer, David Arnold, Brian Berman, James Q. Del Rosso Clinical and experimental literature search has changed significantly o...
Étiquette : metrics
The stability of Twitter metrics: A study on unavailable Twitter mentions of scientific publications
Authors : Zhichao Fang, Jonathan Dudek, Rodrigo Costas This paper investigates the stability of Twitter counts of scientific publications over time. For this, w...
Meta-Research: Use of the Journal Impact Factor in academic review, promotion, and tenure evaluations
Authors : Erin C McKiernan, Lesley A Schimanski, Carol Muñoz Nieves, Lisa Matthias, Meredith T Niles, Juan P Alperin We analyzed how often and in what ways the ...
Do Download Reports Reliably Measure Journal Usage? Trusting the Fox to Count Your Hens?
Authors : Alex Wood-Doughty, Ted Bergstrom, Douglas G. Steigerwald Download rates of academic journals have joined citation counts as commonly used indicators o...
Over-optimization of academic publishing metrics: observing Goodhart’s Law in action
Authors : Michael Fire, Carlos Guestrin Background The academic publishing world is changing significantly, with ever-growing numbers of publications each year ...
Preprints in Scholarly Communication: Re-Imagining Metrics and Infrastructures
Authors : B. Preedip Balaji, M. Dhanamjaya Digital scholarship and electronic publishing among the scholarly communities are changing when metrics and open infr...
A “basket of metrics”—the best support for understanding journal merit
Authors : Lisa Colledge, Chris James Aim To survey opinion of the assertion that useful metricbased input requires a “basket of metrics” to allow more varied an...