Changing how we evaluate research is difficult, but not impossible
Authors : Anna Hatch, Stephen Curry The San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA) was published in 2013 and described how funding agencies, instit...
Étiquette : research evaluation
Use of the journal impact factor for assessing individual articles need not be statistically wrong
Authors : Ludo Waltman, Vincent A. Traag Most scientometricians reject the use of the journal impact factor for assessing individual articles and their authors....
Inferring the causal effect of journals on citations
Author : Vincent Traag Articles in high-impact journals are by definition more highly cited on average. But are they cited more often because the articles are s...
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 ...
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...
Outcomes and Impacts of Development Interventions: Toward Conceptual Clarity
Authors : Brian Belcher, Markus Palenberg The terms “outcome” and “impact” are ubiquitous in evaluation discourse. However, there are many competing definitions...
Plus ou moins open : les revues de rang A en Sciences de l’information et de la communication
Auteurs/Authors : Joachim Schöpfel, Hélène Prost, Amel Fraisse Selon une étude récente, presque la moitié des articles publiés par des chercheurs français sont ...