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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Wouters, Paul

Titel

Rethink impact factors: find new ways to judge a journal

Ist Teil von

• Nature (London), 2019-05, Vol.569 (7758), p.621-623

Ort / Verlag

London: Nature Publishing Group

Erscheinungsjahr

2019

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• To this end, a group of bibliometric and evaluation specialists, scientists, publishers, scientific societies and research-analytics providers are working to hammer out a broader suite of journal indicators, and other ways to judge a journal's qualities. Indicators around curating, for example, might consider the expertise and diversity of the editorial board as well as the acceptance rate of submitted papers and the transparency of acceptance criteria. The prominence of the JIF in research evaluation and the subsequent flourishing of abuses (such as stuffing reference lists with journal self-citations) and even fraud (such as the emergence of a cottage industry of questionable journals touting fake impact factors) are particularly distressing examples4,7. The San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA), which critiques the use of the JIF as a surrogate measure of quality for individual research articles or researchers, has now been signed by 1,356 institutions and more than 14,000 individuals.