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Just as the impact factor of a journal is one measure of the journal’s standing, prestige, or impact, the h-index (after Hirsch, who first proposed the measure1
Apart from the urge to establish priority, career advancement is a major force in motivating scientists to write and publish. Scientists publish research papers and usually append to a given paper a... Read More
The impact factor is one of the most discussed topics in the publishing and scientific community. Thomson Reuters assigns most journals a yearly impact factor (IF), which is the mean
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| November 04, 2013
This article delves a little deeper into the fallacies of the impact factor and points that you should consider when using it.
How can you measure the quality of a research paper? More importantly, how can you determine whether your research is making an impact and is considered important? An objective way is through... Read More
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| November 04, 2013
In recent years, many research groups have been working independently to develop metrics that measure the impact of published research. The journal impact factor is a well-known metric used to... Read More
Although the impact factor is the oldest and, arguably, the most widely used citation metric, it has lost some of its former glory. In recent years, the impact factor has come under considerable... Read More
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| October 17, 2013
Traditional metrics for measuring scholarly impact, such as the impact factor of the journal, h-index, etc., are familiar to all researchers. But although still very popular, citation-based... Read More
