« (…) In this work we observe this positive correlation between the increase in the number of references per article and the overall increase in JIF but, in our analysis, a kink point is observed in consistency with the appearance of online databases, particularly those free available in 2004. Online databases…
« L’évaluation est un garant du bon fonctionnement et de l’intégrité de la recherche scientifique. Au fil des années, une tendance forte au développement d’indicateurs quantitatifs a émergé, très souvent fondée sur l’utilisation de paramètres mis au point dans un autre but. C’est le cas, notamment, du facteur d’impact (FI) des…
« The role of bibliometrics, such as impact factors and h-indices, in shaping research has been well documented. However, what function do these measures have beyond the institutional contexts in which, for better or worse, they were designed? Commenting on a study of bibliometrics in the Italian press, Eugenio Petrovich, shows…
« In the 1990s, China created a research evaluation system based on publications indexed in the Science Citation Index (SCI) and on the Journal Impact Factor. Such a system helped the country become the largest contributor to the scientific literature and increased the position of Chinese universities in international rankings. Although…
« Journal impact factors, publication charges and assessment of quality and accuracy of scientific research are critical for researchers, managers, funders, policy makers, and society. (…)
We review and comment on the advantages and disadvantages of a range of assessment methods and the way in which they are used by…
« L’équipe du volet recherche d’Érudit a réalisé quatre notes de recherche sur des enjeux qui touchent le milieu de la diffusion scientifique :
Principes et politiques du libre accès Droits d’auteur et licences Creative Commons Science ouverte Mesures…« This article briefly reviews the long-lasting commitment of Social Science Information to the critical analysis of orders of knowledge and the conditions for their creation to, subsequently, reflect on the current co-existence of a plurality of orders of justification across society, including the institutions of knowledge production. Furthermore, it suggests…
« Many scholarly journals have established their own data-related policies, which specify their enforcement of data sharing, the types of data to be submitted, and their procedures for making data available. However, except for the journal impact factor and the subject area, the factors associated with the overall strength of the…
« In academia, decisions on promotions are influenced by the citation impact of the works published by the candidates. The Medical Faculty of the University of Bern used a measure based on the journal impact factor (JIF) for this purpose: the JIF of the papers submitted for promotion should rank in…
« Scientific breakthroughs are commonly understood as discoveries that transform the knowledge frontier and have a major impact on science, technology, and society. Prior literature studying breakthroughs generally treats them as a homogeneous group in attempts to identify supportive conditions for their occurrence. In this paper, we argue that there are…
