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| 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] |
| citation metrics citations bibliometry |
| Posted on Friday 29 August 2008 - 04:20:22 |
| 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] |
| citation metrics science publishing impact factor PLoS One |
| Posted on Wednesday 03 September 2008 - 15:27:21 |
| 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 - 11:31:15 |
| 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] |
| impact factor citation statistics citation metrics journal ranking bibliometrics |
| Posted on Friday 20 February 2009 - 09:38:36 |
| 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] |
| Thomson Scientific impact factor citation statistics citation metrics journal ranking |
| Posted on Thursday 20 December 2007 - 04:21:58 |
| 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] |
| Thomson Scientific impact factor citation statistics citation metrics journal ranking |
| Posted on Wednesday 05 March 2008 - 14:38:33 |
| 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] |
| Thomson Scientific impact factor citation statistics citation metrics journal ranking |
| Posted on Friday 09 May 2008 - 04:30:34 |
| 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] |
| bibliometrics science publishing citations citation metrics impact factor citation statistics |
| Posted on Tuesday 03 June 2008 - 11:29:09 |
| Impact factor receives yet another blow |
| 2008 is only about half way over and it's already been a devastating year for monopolist Thomson Scientific, formerly Institute for Scientific Information, ISI. First, the company's ...[more] |
| bibliometrics science publishing citations citation metrics impact factor citation statistics |
| Posted on Thursday 26 June 2008 - 05:02:00 |
| Post-publication paper assessment |
| There has been an interesting discussion going on at the message board for editors of PLoS One. I've posted a comment to this discussion I thought may be interesting to others as well. Here it is (slightly edited): I may ...[more] |
| bibliometrics science publishing citations citation metrics impact factor citation statistics |
| Posted on Monday 21 July 2008 - 11:55:28 |
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