What's so Wrong with the Impact Factor? Part 2 - Digital Science

abernard102@gmail.com 2015-10-14

Summary:

"In last week’s perspective I asked the question ‘What’s wrong with the Impact Factor? Part 1’. Anybody who’s followed the debate over the years will be familiar with many of the common objections to the metric – Here’s an example of a blog post on the subject. But how valid are the common objections? Does the Impact Factor (IF) really harm science? If so, is the IF the cause or just a symptom of a bigger problem? Last week I focused on the mathematical arguments against IF. Principal among those is that IF is mean when it should be a median. This week, I’m going to look more closely at the psychology of IF and how it alters authors’ and readers’ behavior, potentially for the worse ..."

Link:

http://www.digital-science.com/blog/perspectives/whats-so-wrong-with-the-impact-factor-part-2/

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Open Access Tracking Project (OATP) » abernard102@gmail.com

Tags:

oa.new oa.comment oa.jif oa.impact oa.prestige oa.metrics

Date tagged:

10/14/2015, 10:48

Date published:

10/14/2015, 06:48