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impact factor
| Limiting the impact of the impact factor |
| Jeremy Green from King's College London writes in this week's issue of Science, in response to Kai Simons' editorial: |
| impact factor Thomson |
| Posted on Friday 05 December 2008 - 10:21:51 |
| ScienceOnline09: How to get rid of the impact factor |
 I'm finally back in Berlin and have done some research so I can sum up our final session on open access publishing and Thomson Reuters' Impact Factor. Peter Binfield from PLoS One and I moderated this session together (s...[more] |
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| Posted on Wednesday 21 January 2009 - 10:22:08 |
| Is a replacement for impact factors in research evaluation on the way? |
| The discussion at our ScienceOnline09 session "Reputation, authority and incentives. Or: How to get rid of the Impact Factor" had already hinted that people were generally very interested in a service which could eventua...[more] |
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| Posted on Friday 23 January 2009 - 11:31:45 |
| 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 - 09:38:36 |
| The impact of decimals |
| Just yesterday I explained to the auditorium at the Robert Koch-Institut, what is wrong with scholarly publishing today. This morning, catching up with reading, I found this nice little letter to the editor of Nature:...[more] |
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| Posted on Friday 09 October 2009 - 02:37:50 |
| When even Impact Factors don't help any more |
| "Excellence Programs" are all the rage right now, especially here in Germany. In a widely publicized nationwide competition, our university (the Freie Universität Berlin) was awarded the title "Excellence University" - ...[more] |
| Impact Factor Cell Neuron journals publishing |
| Posted on Friday 30 October 2009 - 05:28:33 |
| Science editorial on the misuse of the IF |
| This Science editorial by Kai Simons is worthy of quoting in full (for those of you who cannot get behind the paywall):...[more] |
| Science impact factor |
| Posted on Friday 10 October 2008 - 12:51:58 |
| 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 |
| 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] |
| Thomson Scientific impact factor citation statistics citation metrics ScImage journal ranking butler |
| Posted on Thursday 03 January 2008 - 12:34:56 |
| 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 |
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