Scientists join journal editors to fight impact-factor abuse : Nature News Blog
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more than 150 scientists and 75 science organizations are hoping for today, with a joint statement called the San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA). It deplores the way some metrics — especially the notorious Journal #Impact_Factor (JIF) — are misused as quick and dirty assessments of scientists’ performance and the quality of their research papers.
“There is a pressing need to improve the ways in which the output of scientific research is evaluated,” DORA says.