The Pernicious Mission Creep of Ranking Academic Journals
Pacific Standard,
The use of journal rankings to rate individual papers, scientists, and even programs has upset loads of people in academia. One…
The use of journal rankings to rate individual papers, scientists, and even programs has upset loads of people in academia. One…
A record 66 journals have been banned from this year’s impact-factor list for citation foulplay.
A declaration asks the scientific community to put less weight on the metric, widely used to evaluate journals’ prestige.
Research community urged to stop judging scientists by where their papers are published