Study – The academic papers researchers regard as significant are not those that are highly cited

beSpacific 2018-05-16

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London School of Economics Impact Blog (LSE) – ‘For many years, academia has relied on citation count as the main way to measure the impact or importance of research, informing metrics such as the Impact Factor and the h-index. But how well do these metrics actually align with researchers’ subjective evaluation of impact and significance? Rachel […]

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https://www.bespacific.com/study-the-academic-papers-researchers-regard-as-significant-are-not-those-that-are-highly-cited/

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Sabrina I. Pacifici

Date tagged:

05/16/2018, 19:01

Date published:

05/16/2018, 18:45