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 ...
Étiquette : Impact Factor
How to avoid borrowed plumes in academia
Authors : Margit Osterloh, Bruno S. Frey Publications in top journals today have a powerful influence on academic careers although there is much criticism of us...
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 Pablo Alperin The Journal Impact Factor (JIF) was...
From closed to open access: A case study of flipped journals
Authors : Fakhri Momeni, Nicholas Fraser, Isabella Peters, Philipp Mayr In recent years, increased stakeholder pressure to transition research to Open Access ha...
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...
Evaluating research and researchers by the journal impact factor: is it better than coin flipping?
Authors : Ricardo Brito, Alonso Rodríguez-Navarro The journal impact factor (JIF) is the average of the number of citations of the papers published in a journal...
Plurality in multi-disciplinary research: multiple institutional affiliations are associated with increased citations
Authors : Paul Sanfilippo, Alex W. Hewitt, David A. Mackey Background The institutional affiliations and associated collaborative networks that scientists fost...