Impact Factors Fail in Evaluating Scientists. Why Does the UGC Still Use Them? - The Wire

peter.suber's bookmarks 2018-04-20

Summary:

"The journal impact factor has numerous flaws, which makes it highly irresponsible for the UGC [University Grants Commission] to rely on it to evaluate a teacher’s research performance and decide whether she gets a job or not...."

Link:

https://thewire.in/the-sciences/impact-factors-fail-in-evaluating-scientists-why-does-the-ugc-still-use-it

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Tags:

oa.jif oa.obstacles oa.india oa.funders oa.government oa.impact oa.metrics oa.south

Date tagged:

04/20/2018, 13:32

Date published:

04/20/2018, 09:34