Sentences with phrase «journal impact factors»

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.

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

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

► 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.

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.»

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

«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.

If you've signed the San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment (http://am.ascb.org/dora/), or you just don't think a metric designed for a journal should be used to evaluate individual scientists, avert your eyes: Journal impact factor has a strong influence on a scientist's probability of attaining PI - ship.

It's apples and oranges, but to the extent that a comparison can be made, the influence of journal impact factor seems stronger than that of either the number of citations your most cited article has received or of h - index, which is meant to measure a scientist's productivity and impact.

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

[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.]

«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.

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.

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.

Few journals says they have journal impact factor.

This Journal Impact Factor is provided by GISI and not Thomson Reuters.»

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.»

Journal Impact Factor: 2.293

However, as a check on quality control, we also examined whether several methodological characteristics (sample size, number of items in delinquency and parenting questionnaires, reliability of the parenting questionnaire, publication status, and journal impact factor), moderated the link between parenting and delinquency.

Not exact matches

The Journal of the American Medical Association just released a study that found a county where a person resides can make as much an impact on their heath as other factors, like ethnicity and genetics.

Journals are in competition with one another for attention and «impact factor,» and are always more eager to report a new, exciting finding than a killjoy failure to find an association.

Low impact factors, and no real evidence that half these journals even conduct peer reviews.

IMPACT FACTOR 2016: 1.577 5 - year IMPACT FACTOR: 1.705 CiteScore 2016: 1.49 SCImago Journal Rank (SJR) 2016: 0.602 Source Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP) 2016:IMPACT FACTOR 2016: 1.577 5 - year IMPACT FACTOR: 1.705 CiteScore 2016: 1.49 SCImago Journal Rank (SJR) 2016: 0.602 Source Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP) 2016:IMPACT FACTOR: 1.705 CiteScore 2016: 1.49 SCImago Journal Rank (SJR) 2016: 0.602 Source Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP) 2016:Impact per Paper (SNIP) 2016: 0.832

Researchers insisted to MPs that institutions did not base funding on «impact factor» — the coverage that publication in a journal may secure in the mainstream press, but the committee appeared unconvinced.

Chair Andrew Miller said: «There is an element of chance in getting articles accepted in high - impact journals, depending on topicality and other factors.

The funding agency thinks that I shouldn't have published in «that» journal, which according to its classification has a «low» impact factor.

The lower impact factors of the journals where novel work appears add to that effect.

«As a researcher, I want to publish open access, but when renowned journals with high impact factors are not open access this leaves you with a problem.

If you continue your search on the Web of Knowledge site, you will find that review journals and review - and - methods articles have the highest impact factor.

Also note that Science, Nature, and Cell have the highest impact factors in this list, suggesting that these journals are, as you would expect, the top of the heap.

• Assess impact factors based on whether your grandparents think they've heard of the journal.

And for better or worse, journal prestige and impact factor are still important criteria when evaluating early - career scientists.

Whether the paper was published in a journal with a high impact factor — an often used but controversial indicator of quality — didn't seem to make a difference as to whether bias safeguards were noted, MacLeod and his colleagues write.

Notice in this example that the society - level Journal of Immunology has an impact factor of 7, whereas the near - the - top immunology journal Immunity has an impact factor oJournal of Immunology has an impact factor of 7, whereas the near - the - top immunology journal Immunity has an impact factor ojournal Immunity has an impact factor of 17.5.

It's worth noting, however, that few of the journals experimenting with open peer review are among the leaders when it comes to impact factor or reputation, at least for now.

Given that we scientists are usually more concerned with achieving the best impact factor more than getting our paper into the most appropriate journal, perhaps a 70:30 split stacked toward the high impact end of the ladder, then it is a fair estimation that improving impact factor is how we should spend our time and energy.

The median funding level for PIs publishing in journals with lower impact factors — such as PLOS ONE and the Journal of Biological Chemistry — was not much lower, about the 70th percentile, but the distribution of funding brackets was more diverse.

As discussed in articles from the Lancet to the New York Times, promotions and pay rely heavily on the number of publications a researcher has and the impact factors of the journals.

«Our impact factor, a common measure of a journal's success, has increased,» he says.

So why don't journal publishers cooperate with each other, using the Thomson Reuters database to calculate their own impact factors?

These are journals that sport fake impact factors, that promise a 1 - week peer review, that publish tons of papers that contain plagiarism, and that annoy researchers worldwide with doltish spam.»