The ridiculous number that can make or break academic careers

lkfitz's bookmarks 2017-09-17

Summary:

"As I mentioned in The vicious cycle of academic publishing, the Impact Factor is a major reason the transition to Open Access is taking so long. Since traditional journals are more likely to have a high Impact Factor, researchers are heavily pressured to publish there — even though that often means hiding their research behind a paywall."

Link:

https://medium.com/flockademic/the-ridiculous-number-that-can-make-or-break-academic-careers-704e00ae070a

From feeds:

Open Access Tracking Project (OATP) » lkfitz's bookmarks

Tags:

oa.new oa.p&t oa.jif oa.impact oa.citations oa.obstacles oa.publishing oa.altmetrics oa.metrics

Date tagged:

09/17/2017, 15:55

Date published:

09/17/2017, 11:55