The ResearchGate Score: A Good Example of a Bad Metric
A significant weight is linked to ‘impact points’ – a similar metric to the widely discredited journal impact factor.
Send us a link
Reverse Engineering JCR's Self-Citation and Citation Stacking Thresholds
Now we know how suppression decisions are made, should metrics companies suppress titles at all or simply make the underlying data more transparent?
How Much Citation Manipulation Is Acceptable?
Is citation manipulation a moral problem or an accounting problem?
Is the Nature Index at Odds with DORA?
We find Nature Research's critical attitude towards journal impact factors, embodied in its signing of the San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA; Nature 544, 394; 2017), to be inconsistent with the aims of its Nature Index.
Designing a New Type of Journal Metric
At the Researcher to Reader conference, a volunteer project called Project Cupcake was launched to define a new suite of indicators to help researchers judge publishers, rather than the other way around.
Do ResearchGate Scores Create Ghost Academic Reputations?
Is it reasonable to employ the ResearchGate Score as evidence of scholarly reputation?
Introducing ORCID
ORCID wasn't intended as a massive longitudinal survey of human migration, but with 3 million profiles and growing, it is becoming just that.
Citation Performance Indicators - A Very Short Introduction
A brief summary of the main citation indicators used today.
The Quantified Self and the Gamification of Academic Research Through Social Networks
The Quantified Self and the Gamification of Academic Research Through Social Networks
ResearchGate and similar services represent a “gamification” of research, drawing on features usually associated with online games, like rewards, rankings and levels.
Who’s Who on Science Twitter and Who Counts?
Remember the Kardashian index? That was Neil Hall's 2014 tongue-in-cheek(ish) dig at science Twitter and "Science Kardashians" - scientists with a high Twitter-follower-to-citation ratio.
Reviewers Are Blinkered by Bibliometrics
Science panels still rely on poor proxies to judge quality and impact.
Using Altmetrics to Measure Research Impact
Altmetrics is a novel method to track and measure the social impact of scientific publications and also the influence of a researcher.
Citation Data From 14 Million Papers, and More Might Come
Initiative for Open Citations makes citation data free for all
Initiative for Open Citations
The Initiative for Open Citations (I4OC) is a collaboration between scholarly publishers, researchers, and other interested parties to promote the unrestricted availability of scholarly citation data.
Global Coalition Pushes for Unrestricted Sharing of Scholarly Citation Data
A coalition of scholarly publishers, researchers, and nonprofit organizations launched the Initiative for Open Citations (I4OC), a project to promote the unrestricted open access to scholarly citation data.
A Scientists' View of Scientometrics: Not Everything That Counts Can Be Counted
A Scientists' View of Scientometrics: Not Everything That Counts Can Be Counted
A review showing that some metrics in widespread use cannot be used as reliable indicators research quality.
Citation Cartels ad The Mafia of Scientific Publishing
Citation cartels are groups of researchers and journals that team up with the specific intent of affecting the number of citations their publications receive.
Next-Generation Metrics
Responsible metrics and evaluation for open science.
Why Are Citations Important In Research Writing?
It’s not just about distributing credit where it’s due
Google Scholar Is a Serious Alternative to Web of Science
Many bibliometricians and university administrators remain wary of Google Scholar citation data, preferring “the gold standard” of Web of Science instead.
Why Citation Counts Don’t Matter
Allow me to pull back the curtain. Scientist #1 is writing a paper and wants to add a reference in the introduction.
Citation Cartel Or Editor Gone Rogue?
How much can a single editor distort the citation record? Investigation documents rogue editor's coercion of authors to cite his journal, papers.
Use of the Journal Impact Factor for Assessing Individual Articles Need Not Be Wrong
Use of the Journal Impact Factor for Assessing Individual Articles Need Not Be Wrong
Without any doubt, the journal impact factor (IF) is one of the most debated scientometric indicators. Especially the use of the IF for assessing individual articles and their authors is highly controversial.
×