1 / 3

The problem: Impact Assessment of Journals

The problem: Impact Assessment of Journals. Impact Factor is widely used (& often abused) to assess impact of journals (& individuals) No single metric can ever capture the full picture of research impact Impact Factor measures average citation performance – but what about top performance?

ena
Download Presentation

The problem: Impact Assessment of Journals

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. The problem: Impact Assessment of Journals • Impact Factor is widely used (& often abused) to assess impact of journals (& individuals) • No single metric can ever capture the full picture of research impact • Impact Factor measures average citation performance – but what about top performance? • Also: Large journals cannot have high impact factors – see Physical Review Letters102, 060001 (2009) • We need metrics not to replace but to complement the Impact Factor • We propose the S-index: a time-sensitive H-index-like metric for journals The IF is the number of citations over a 2-year window,averaged over the whole journal. Not all papers are created equal!

  2. Introduce a new metric for the highly cited papers in a journal:S-index For a set of papers H-index: fullpublication window, fullcitation window S-index (for 2011): 2009-2010 publication window 2011citation window 2011 S index = maximum number S of papers, published in 2009-2010, cited more than S timesin 2011 H-index • • • • • • ‘07 ‘08 ‘09 ‘10 ‘11 ‘12 today S-index

  3. Manolis Antonoyiannakis • I am a Senior Assistant Editor in Physical Review Letters, a journal published by the American Physical Society. • I am also an Adjunct Research Associate Scientist at Columbia University. • From 2008-2010 I was the Scientific Advisor to Prof. FotisKafatos, the founding President of the European Research Council in London/Brussels. • I devote most of my time handling the peer review of manuscripts, part of my time in bibliostatistics. I am interested in the peer review process from a statistical and systemic perspective and in metrics that quantify the impact of research. More specifically, I am interested in:  • understanding and enhancing peer review using data analysis and statistical inference (improving the review workflow process; detecting bias or conflict of interest; creating & improving referee selection protocols and tools; producing & analyzing feedback on editorial decisions; qualitative & quantitative citation analysis; recognizing citation impact patterns; etc.) • metrics - and their limitations - that quantify the impact of scientific research (impact statistics of journals, individuals and groups)  • sociological effects influencing the impact of scientific work  • networks of referees and authors  • behavioral studies of scientists For more info, please visit www.bibliostatistics.org

More Related