Reforming Research Assessment: A Tough Nut to Crack - The Scholarly Kitchen

Last Monday the Center for Open Science (COS) formally launched TOP Factor, an alternative to the Journal Impact Factor (JIF) based primarily on the Transparency and Openness Promotion (TOP) Guidelines. For full and early disclosure, I’m Vice Chair of the COS Board but my interest here is in situating this new initiative in the longer history of attempts to shift research assessment – and in other words, to fundamentally change research culture.