The recent release of the Thomson Reuters Impact Factors has once again sparked an ongoing debate around the value and insight that such metrics can… Read more »
The findings of the Nuffield Council report on the culture of science in the UK were discussed at the BioMed Central Editors’ Conference which took… Read more »
Is it time for a transparency metric? Scholarly metrics are thriving right now, both in number and what (and how) they measure,… Read more »
How do we measure the impact of research? And are the metrics we measure of value? These questions, and more, were discussed at… Read more »
When assessing the impact of a published research article, it might seem logical to look at the Impact Factor of the journal that… Read more »
The impact of academic research has long been measured using citations, often with the Journal Impact Factor being used to assess… Read more »