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Imperial College disavows the beloved Impact Factor. Boohoo.

February 4, 2017protohedgehogOpen Science

Yippee! Imperial College London have signed DORA, the San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment! This basically means that the impact factor will no longer be used for research assessment. This follows the widespread documentation of its inherent flaws its but perplexing and continued mis-use. This is HUGE. Impact factors will no longer be promoted, either directly […]

It's beyond time we ditched the impact factor

March 26, 2014protohedgehogUncategorized

This originally appeared at: http://blogs.egu.eu/palaeoblog/?p=1162 “I am sick of impact factors and so is science.” Stephen Curry said it best back in 2012. The impact factor is just one of the many banes of academia, from it’s complete misuse to being falsely inflated by publishers. I want to draw attention to a new article that addresses […]