This link has been bookmarked by 4 people . It was first bookmarked on 26 May 2008, by Lisa Spiro.
-
29 Mar 09
-
The Web of Science (WoS) is well established with huge coverage. But critics say that WoS is expensive – Google Scholar, by comparison, is free – and its coverage incomplete. They also say that because citation metrics take years to create, WoS cannot identify what is hot right now.
-
But Kuan-Teh Jeang, editor in chief of open access (OA) journal Retrovirology, says that metrics designed to measure “previous” modes of publication are an assessment of publishing impact on a largely “Western and developed audience” and are lagging rather than leading indicators.
-
Pringle says Thomson Scientific is watching with interest experiments with other citation metrics from journal ranking body Eigenfactor to download metrics. “With a download or a page view versus a citation in peer-reviewed literature, you are dealing with a different point on the value scale,” he says.
-
Scopus introduced an H Index service this year, in response to the fact that 20% of researchers’ searches of its system were to do with people evaluating themselves, their peers and competitors.
-
-
26 May 08
Lisa SpiroThe beguiling simplicity of the “impact factor” has made it a figure of supreme importance in research. Journal impact factors, or IFs, measure how often science and social science journals are cited by academics. The measurement of the number of times a journal is cited by researchers in the field has become shorthand for the value of that journal; and funding bodies and employers use citation metrics to assess the productivity of institutions, departments and individuals.
Would you like to comment?
Join Diigo for a free account, or sign in if you are already a member.