This delay in recognition can place authors of «high risk / high gain» papers at a disadvantage in the contest for funding and career advancement, because their work does relatively badly on the «classic
bibliometric measures» of article impact that generally «use short citation windows» of only a few years, the authors note.
Not exact matches
«[T] he increased reliance funding agencies place on [such] classic
bibliometric indicators» as short - term citation metrics and journal impact
measures thus hampers the chances that innovative work will win support and constrains both the progress of science and the career prospects of innovative but lesser - known researchers, the authors observe.
Publication databases such as Scopus or Web of Science may include
bibliometrics such as h - index and m - index, which combine
measures of publications and citations to indicate influence.
When using
bibliometrics or other performance indexes, she advises providing a description of the
measure and its limitations.