The manifesto of Leiden Indicators Research | WIT [CSIC-UPV] - Institute for Innovation Management and Knowledge

" ... For these reasons, we present the Manifesto of Leiden , which is named the conference where crystallized . The ten principles are not new to experts in scientometrics, but none of us would be able to recite in full since until now had not been encrypted. Celebrities in scientometrics, as Eugene Garfield (founder of ISI), have already submitted sometimes some of these principles, 3 but can not be present when evaluators inform university managers who are not experts in the relevant methodology. Scientists seeking literature to dispute or challenge evaluations only find the necessary information on what are, for them, opaque and inaccessible journals. We offer this summary of best practices based on metric indicators for researchers to hold accountable those evaluators evaluation and for evaluators to hold accountable those indicators ..."