#bibliometrics — Public Fediverse posts

My head tells me bibliometrics are awful, my heart still beats faster when I get cited or my h-index increases ;-)

Or is it the other way around?

Anyway a paper I was third author on just got cited for the first time and I am bizarrely pleased. I think it is more that it has greater than zero citations now, makes it feel like there was some value to others… however illusory this may be.

On a related note one of my colleagues has *exactly* the same h-index as me, and precisely two more citations over the course of her career. The devil is in the detail though: her citation rate is much higher, and is growing, whereas I am last year’s man man.

#bibliometrics

My head tells me bibliometrics are awful, my heart still beats faster when I get cited or my h-index increases ;-)

Or is it the other way around?

Anyway a paper I was third author on just got cited for the first time and I am bizarrely pleased. I think it is more that it has greater than zero citations now, makes it feel like there was some value to others… however illusory this may be.

On a related note one of my colleagues has *exactly* the same h-index as me, and precisely two more citations over the course of her career. The devil is in the detail though: her citation rate is much higher, and is growing, whereas I am last year’s man man.

#bibliometrics

My head tells me bibliometrics are awful, my heart still beats faster when I get cited or my h-index increases ;-)

Or is it the other way around?

Anyway a paper I was third author on just got cited for the first time and I am bizarrely pleased. I think it is more that it has greater than zero citations now, makes it feel like there was some value to others… however illusory this may be.

On a related note one of my colleagues has *exactly* the same h-index as me, and precisely two more citations over the course of her career. The devil is in the detail though: her citation rate is much higher, and is growing, whereas I am last year’s man man.

#bibliometrics

My head tells me bibliometrics are awful, my heart still beats faster when I get cited or my h-index increases ;-)

Or is it the other way around?

Anyway a paper I was third author on just got cited for the first time and I am bizarrely pleased. I think it is more that it has greater than zero citations now, makes it feel like there was some value to others… however illusory this may be.

On a related note one of my colleagues has *exactly* the same h-index as me, and precisely two more citations over the course of her career. The devil is in the detail though: her citation rate is much higher, and is growing, whereas I am last year’s man man.

#bibliometrics

My head tells me bibliometrics are awful, my heart still beats faster when I get cited or my h-index increases ;-)

Or is it the other way around?

Anyway a paper I was third author on just got cited for the first time and I am bizarrely pleased. I think it is more that it has greater than zero citations now, makes it feel like there was some value to others… however illusory this may be.

On a related note one of my colleagues has *exactly* the same h-index as me, and precisely two more citations over the course of her career. The devil is in the detail though: her citation rate is much higher, and is growing, whereas I am last year’s man man.

#bibliometrics

Our new 📄 in Current Alzheimer Research looks at a strange, and worrying, phenomenon in scientific writing: tortured phrases. Instead of blood-brain barrier, some papers use bizarre alternatives like blood-brain obstruction or blood-cerebrum boundary.

:doi: https://doi.org/10.2174/0115672050460224260206052444

These are not just language errors, they can signal deeper issues such as weak #PeerReview or even #PaperMills.

#OpenScience #ResearchIntegrity #Bibliometrics #Neuroethics #AcademicPublishing