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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:
K. Simons's Editorial "The misused impact factor" (10 October, p. 165) reminded me of the Tolstoy stor...[more]
impact factor   Thomson   
Posted on Friday 05 December 2008 - 10:21:51

ScienceOnline09: How to get rid of the impact factor
ScienceOnline09I'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]
impact factor   OpenID   evaluation   science publishing   
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]
impact factor   research assessment   OpenID   identifier   
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]
impact factor   citation statistics   citation metrics   journal ranking   bibliometrics   
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]
impact factor   decimals   nature   publishing   
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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