Sentences with phrase «journal impact factor»

Another area of concern highlighted by the report was the use of journal impact factors as an indicator of the quality of particular papers.

Some ways to move in this direction include eliminating journal impact factor as a criterion and removing identifying information from cover letters, they continue.

Science Careers» sister site, ScienceInsider, reported yesterday afternoon that 150 scientists and 75 scientific groups have co-signed an open letter protesting what they claim is an overreliance on journal impact factors by funding agencies, academic institutions, journals, and organizations that provide publication metrics.

[To be sure, the quality and impact of scholarship can be correlated with journal impact factor, fundability, and institutional «brand», except when they are not.]

Developed by Thomson Reuters, journal impact factor measures a journal's purported importance by gauging how frequently other journals cite the papers that it publishes.

In order to create a culture around research assessment that is free from metrics including Journal Impact Factor, the university held a series of meetings to facilitate discussions with researchers on the best ways to create change.

All seven of the UK's research councils have signed up to a declaration that calls for the academic community to stop using journal impact factors as a proxy for the quality of scholarship.

Alberts's editorial also notes that relying on journal impact factors to evaluate a scientist's research output «creates a strong disincentive to pursue risky and potentially groundbreaking work, because it takes years to create a new approach in a new experimental context, during which no publications should be expected.»

The journal impact factor was designed to help librarians decide which journals to subscribe to and was never intended as a measuring stick for the value of a scientist's research, as it is sometimes used today.

Now, there has been a push to reexamine the importance that tenure committees and journal reviewers assign to journal impact factors.

Earlier this year, a group of concerned scientists and journal publishers signed an open letter known as the San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA) to encourage review boards and tenure committees to «eliminate the use of journal - based metrics, such as Journal Impact Factors, in funding, appointment, and promotion considerations,» and to encourage the development of alternative metrics (altmetrics) to measure a scientist's research contributions.

The journal impact factor was initially developed to help librarians determine which journals to subscribe to, not to rate individual scientists in competition for jobs or grants.

An article in The Chronicle of Higher Education points out that the editors - in - chief of two other prominent scientific publishers, Nature Publishing Group and Elsevier, declined to sign the letter, although they agreed that journal impact factors shouldn't be used to evaluate individual scientists.

«The Journal Impact Factor is frequently used as the primary parameter with which to compare the scientific output of individuals and institutions,» the letter says.

But that's a misuse of the metric, it argues: Journal impact factor was initially developed to help librarians determine which journals to subscribe to, not to rate individual scientists in competition for jobs or grants.

Scientists have a love - hate relationship with the journal impact factor (JIF), the measurement used to rank technical journals by prestige.

► In this week's Science editorial, Editor - in - Chief Marcia McNutt calls for moving beyond publications, citations, journal impact factors, «and derivatives of these such as the h - index» in efforts to measure the merit of research.

The other big thing is, we want to kill the journal impact factor.

«You see citations, journal impact factors, and order of authors,» he says.

She studies the diversification of measures beyond publications, citations, and journal impact factors (calculated as the average number of times articles published over a two - year period are cited in a given journal).

The journal impact factor has long been the main standard for measuring scientific impact, although it is deeply -LSB-...]

«The Journal Impact Factor was developed to help librarians make subscription decisions, but it's become a proxy for the quality of research,» said Stefano Bertuzzi, executive director of the American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB).

The Wellcome Trust and the Higher Education Funding Council for England are among the bodies calling for the use of the journal impact factor in funding, appointment and promotion decisions to be scrapped.

In the past, publishers such as Nature and Elsevier, reinforced their high standing by relying on a metric, the journal impact factor (JIF) that computes the average number of citations of papers published in the journal during the preceding two - year period.

PLOS supports DORA — the San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment — and does not promote our journal Impact Factors.

The Journal Impact Factor is perhaps the best - known such shortcut, but researcher pedigree, institutional reputation (or lack thereof), geographical location, and more can all bias the minds of evaluators when considering individuals or individual pieces of work.

The movement placed renewed attention on the misuse of journal - based metrics, such as the Journal Impact Factor (JIF), and focused on the task of freeing research assessment from their influence.

It explicitly states that Journal Impact Factor will not be used as the sole metric to evaluate research.

Elsevier's APC price points are based on «journal impact factor; the journal's editorial and technical processes; competitive considerations; market conditions; other revenue streams associated with the journal.»

Subscription pricing is also not based primarily on cost, but rather on «article volume; journal impact factor; journal usage; editorial processes; competitive considerations; and other revenue streams such as commercial contributions from advertising, reprints and supplements.»

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Option 3: Have one article / issue in Group Dynamics and perhaps have a separate editor for that (this would likely reduce the journals impact factor since practice based articles are not cited as often)