to whose eternal glory the monuments of all histories testify, Your virtue alone, Great Hero, can by Your name, impart immortality to these stars ! http://www.medici.org/exhibitions/galileo- 1610 (the telescope may prove useful, but to explore future possibilities we recommend that more funding be applied)
IF in 2009 = 49.9 ! The dramatic rise was due to a single article cited over 6,700 times! Without this article, the IF would have remained < 3.0! via Abd Karim Alias akarim@usm.my
almost useless as a predictor of the likely citations to any particular paper in that journal Kravitz, Dwight J., and Chris I. Baker. 2011. “Toward a New Model of Scientific Publishing: Discussion and a Proposal.” Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience 5 (December): 1–12. doi: 10.3389/fncom.2011.00055. http:// www.frontiersin.org/ Computational_Neuroscience/10.3389/ fncom.2011.00055/abstract. “Deciphering Impact Factors.” 2003. Nature Neuroscience 6 (8) (August): 783–783. doi:10.1038/nn0803-783. http://www.nature.com/doifinder/10.1038/nn0803-783.
Unintended Consequences of Journal Rank.” Frontiers in Human Neuroscience 7 (January): 291. doi:10.3389/fnhum.2013.00291. http:// www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=3690355&tool=pmcentrez&rendertype=abstract.
not have or care to take the time to read the articles any more! Garfield, Eugene. 2005. “The Agony and the Ecstasy — the History and Meaning of the Journal Impact Factor.” Journal of Biological Chemistry 295 (1): 1–22. http:// garfield.library.upenn.edu/papers/jifchicago2005.pdf.
Weakening Relationship between the Impact Factor and Papers’ Citations in the Digital Age.” Arxiv Preprint arXiv12054328 8: 14. doi:10.1002/asi.22731. http://arxiv.org/abs/1205.4328.
Ryan Chute, Marko a Rodriguez, and Lyudmila Balakireva. 2009. “Clickstream Data Yields High-Resolution Maps of Science.” PloS One 4 (3): e4803. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone. 0004803. http:// www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/ pubmed/19277205.
so many scientifically sophisticated people give so much credence to a procedure that is so obviously flawed “Deciphering Impact Factors.” 2003. Nature Neuroscience 6 (8) (August): 783–783. doi:10.1038/nn0803-783. http://www.nature.com/doifinder/10.1038/nn0803-783.
list of publications in your cv, you are statistically illiterate. ! ▪ If you are judging grant or promotion applications and find yourself scanning the applicant’s publications, checking off the impact factors, you are statistically illiterate. ! ▪ If you publish a journal that trumpets its impact factor in adverts or emails, you are statistically illiterate. (If you trumpet that impact factor to three decimal places, there is little hope for you.) ! ▪ If you see someone else using impact factors and make no attempt at correction, you connive at statistical illiteracy. • Stephen Curry
Weakening Relationship between the Impact Factor and Papers’ Citations in the Digital Age.” Arxiv Preprint arXiv12054328 8: 14. doi:10.1002/asi.22731. http://arxiv.org/abs/1205.4328.
H 5 index Eigenfactor ! Citations Data sets Data reuse Data downloads Data citation Software Reviewing Tools built Grant revenue PhDs supervised Course materials Patents Government service ! Downloads Mendeley readers Tweets Facebook likes Citeulike bookmarks Betweenness centrality F1000 score Wikipedia citations News mentions Lay summaries Length spent reading Annotation density Readership demographic
medical research) was squandered on studies that were flawed in their design, redundant, never published or poorly reported The Lancet - via the economist 2014-03-15
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