#impactfactor — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #impactfactor, aggregated by home.social.
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Interview with yours truly on journal rank, peer review and a journal replacement:
"Beyond Journal Prestige: Rebuilding Peer Review and Scholarly Publishing"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=miWuXGbJJl8
#academicchatter #publishing #journals #impactfactor #science #peerreview
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Interview with yours truly on journal rank, peer review and a journal replacement:
"Beyond Journal Prestige: Rebuilding Peer Review and Scholarly Publishing"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=miWuXGbJJl8
#academicchatter #publishing #journals #impactfactor #science #peerreview
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Oh, this looks like an interesting read!
"We explore how this travesty has arisen, specifically the impact of Robert Maxwell in demonstrating how scholarship might be exploited and of Eugene Garfield in showing how it might be replaced by indicators, especially the journal impact factor."
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Oh, this looks like an interesting read!
"We explore how this travesty has arisen, specifically the impact of Robert Maxwell in demonstrating how scholarship might be exploited and of Eugene Garfield in showing how it might be replaced by indicators, especially the journal impact factor."
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Symbolic image of the state of #academic #publishing: The original study does not contain much detail (most certainly not a single word of #humour), and the #replication study is locked up behind a #paywall, on which #impactfactor, #peerreview, #plagiarism, #copyright and #publicationbias are having #popcorn.
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Symbolic image of the state of #academic #publishing: The original study does not contain much detail (most certainly not a single word of #humour), and the #replication study is locked up behind a #paywall, on which #impactfactor, #peerreview, #plagiarism, #copyright and #publicationbias are having #popcorn.
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… a more refined measurement that addresses the deficiencies of the h-index. Through three empirical studies, this study shows that the i-score offers a more consistent and accurate assessment of research performance by incorporating both productivity and quality." #iScore #bibliometry #impactfactor
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… a more refined measurement that addresses the deficiencies of the h-index. Through three empirical studies, this study shows that the i-score offers a more consistent and accurate assessment of research performance by incorporating both productivity and quality." #iScore #bibliometry #impactfactor
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Discover. Integrate. Innovate.
Give your #PlantScience paper the visibility it deserves with #JIPB.
Visit us at https://jipb.net/EN/1672-9072/home.shtml for the latest papers, submission guidelines and more!
#research #SciComm #ImpactFactor #CiteScore #botany -
Discover. Integrate. Innovate.
Give your #PlantScience paper the visibility it deserves with #JIPB.
Visit us at https://jipb.net/EN/1672-9072/home.shtml for the latest papers, submission guidelines and more!
#research #SciComm #ImpactFactor #CiteScore #botany -
The #impactfactor "mostly shows commercial value, current trends, and geopolitical advantage, seldom methodological rigour. "
Journal impact factor: The illusion of scientific excellence:
https://ijfcm.org/archive/volume/13/issue/2/article/27107 -
The #impactfactor "mostly shows commercial value, current trends, and geopolitical advantage, seldom methodological rigour. "
Journal impact factor: The illusion of scientific excellence:
https://ijfcm.org/archive/volume/13/issue/2/article/27107 -
Editorial in "Development" by Alex Eve and James Briscoe:
"We also have a collective responsibility to challenge how IF [ #ImpactFactor ] is used: in grant reviews, in hiring decisions, in promotion committees. If we believe that research should be judged on its own merit, we need to act on that belief, not just as editors, but as reviewers, as panel members, and as colleagues ."
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Editorial in "Development" by Alex Eve and James Briscoe:
"We also have a collective responsibility to challenge how IF [ #ImpactFactor ] is used: in grant reviews, in hiring decisions, in promotion committees. If we believe that research should be judged on its own merit, we need to act on that belief, not just as editors, but as reviewers, as panel members, and as colleagues ."
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From Alex Eve (executive director of the society journal Development) and James Briscoe (editor-in-chief of Development):
"We contend that Development is a key example that demonstrates the lack of correlation between the impact factor metric, and the trust, reputation and scientific rigour of the articles we publish."
"The elephant in the room: impact factor"
Alex Eve and James Briscoe, 2026 editorial
https://journals.biologists.com/dev/article/153/12/dev205838/371997/The-elephant-in-the-room-impact-factor -
From Alex Eve (executive director of the society journal Development) and James Briscoe (editor-in-chief of Development):
"We contend that Development is a key example that demonstrates the lack of correlation between the impact factor metric, and the trust, reputation and scientific rigour of the articles we publish."
"The elephant in the room: impact factor"
Alex Eve and James Briscoe, 2026 editorial
https://journals.biologists.com/dev/article/153/12/dev205838/371997/The-elephant-in-the-room-impact-factor -
"These findings raise the possibility that paper mill activity has played a role in shaping journal impact factors – and by extension the perceived prestige – of some of the highest-ranked journals in molecular cancer research."
'nuff said.
"Suspected distortion of citations in high-impact cancer journals"
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.05.25.727627v1
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"These findings raise the possibility that paper mill activity has played a role in shaping journal impact factors – and by extension the perceived prestige – of some of the highest-ranked journals in molecular cancer research."
'nuff said.
"Suspected distortion of citations in high-impact cancer journals"
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.05.25.727627v1
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🟢 Privées d'impact factor
Un indicateur central malgré ses défauts, dont le retrait peut faire voler en éclat la réputation d’une revue et peut-être la vôtre avec
https://themeta.news/ces-revues-qui-perdent-leur-impact-factor/
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multilevel evaluation system centred on research quality”
“This provides crucial support for moving beyond the dominance of the #impactfactor – a measure of citations published within a given journal over a fixed period – paper counts, while enhancing China’s academic voice,” he said.Rather than simply counting citations, the #DongbiIndex assesses their quality, constructing a citation network based on the assumption that high-quality papers cite work published in similarly strong journals.
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Weekend reads: An alternative to the #impactfactor in China; the clinical trials of six ‘superretractors’; Retraction Watch goes to Capitol Hill – #RetractionWatch
China proposes a new way to measure academic influence in a departure from impact factor.”
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The Journal of Physical Chemistry B is a #peerreviewed #scientificJournal that covers research on several fields of material chemistry (macromolecules, soft matter, and #surfactants) as well as #statisticalMechanics, #thermodynamics, and #biophysicalChemistry. It has been published weekly since 1997 by the #AmericanChemicalSociety. According to the #JournalCitationReports, the journal had an #impactFactor of 3.5 for 2023. Due to the growing amount of research in the fields it covers.
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"Die fragwürdige Macht des Journal Impact Factors"
https://osl.hypotheses.org/22298
#ImpactFactor #IF #Zeitschriften #ResearchAssesment -
Bringt KI die Wissenschaft in Gefahr? - 3sat-Mediathek
https://www.3sat.de/wissen/nano/251104-sendung-bringt-ki-die-wissenschaft-in-gefahr-nano-100.html
"Es gibt immer mehr gefälschte Studien und Fake-Publikationen - auch in Fachzeitschriften. Künstliche Intelligenz macht das Fälschen leichter. "
Interview mit Bernhard Sabel (Dazu: Stockholmer Erklärung
Forschende fordern Reformen im Publikationssystem: https://www.forschung-und-lehre.de/forschung/forschende-fordern-reformen-im-publikationssystem-7378)#FakeScience #PaperMills #ImpactFactor #PublishOrPerish #jounsls #ki #ai #3SatNano #StockholmerErklärung #StockholmDeclaration
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Bringt KI die Wissenschaft in Gefahr? - 3sat-Mediathek
https://www.3sat.de/wissen/nano/251104-sendung-bringt-ki-die-wissenschaft-in-gefahr-nano-100.html
"Es gibt immer mehr gefälschte Studien und Fake-Publikationen - auch in Fachzeitschriften. Künstliche Intelligenz macht das Fälschen leichter. "
Interview mit Bernhard Sabel (Dazu: Stockholmer Erklärung
Forschende fordern Reformen im Publikationssystem: https://www.forschung-und-lehre.de/forschung/forschende-fordern-reformen-im-publikationssystem-7378)#FakeScience #PaperMills #ImpactFactor #PublishOrPerish #jounsls #ki #ai #3SatNano #StockholmerErklärung #StockholmDeclaration
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📘 Accepted #Journal #Article Announcement
The article “#GenerativeAI and the #UrbanAI Policy Challenges Ahead: Trustworthy for Whom?” has been accepted in the journal Transforming Government: People, Process and Policy (#TGPPP, Emerald Publishing).
📊 #ImpactFactor 2.6 | #CiteScore 5.0🔗 See the #AAM #AuthoredAcceptedManuscript) via @ssrn https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5594632
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📘 Accepted #Journal #Article Announcement
The article “#GenerativeAI and the #UrbanAI Policy Challenges Ahead: Trustworthy for Whom?” has been accepted in the journal Transforming Government: People, Process and Policy (#TGPPP, Emerald Publishing).
📊 #ImpactFactor 2.6 | #CiteScore 5.0🔗 See the #AAM #AuthoredAcceptedManuscript) via @ssrn https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5594632
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Wie kann man Forschungsleistung fairer bewerten als mit Kennzahlen a la #Impactfactor & Co.? Am @bih_charite entwickelt Miriam Kip alternative Indikatoren und implementiert sie bspw. in Lebensläufen für Berufungsverfahren. Mario Rembold sprach mit ihr: https://www.laborjournal.de/rubric/essays/essays2025/e25_06.php
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Wie kann man Forschungsleistung fairer bewerten als mit Kennzahlen a la #Impactfactor & Co.? Am @bih_charite entwickelt Miriam Kip alternative Indikatoren und implementiert sie bspw. in Lebensläufen für Berufungsverfahren. Mario Rembold sprach mit ihr: https://www.laborjournal.de/rubric/essays/essays2025/e25_06.php
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Damian Pattinson of @eLife (and my former boss at PLOS ONE) at The Royal Society's Future of Scientific Publishing conference describes the devastating effect on their submissions of Clarivate removing their Impact Factor due to their change in peer review model, then asks why other journals, including Science, don't renounce their own IFs.
#SciComm #JournalPublishing #ImpactFactor #Clarivate #WebOfScience #PeerReview #TheRoyalSociety #FutureOfScientificPublishing #Citations #Bibliometrics #ResearchImpact #ResearchAssessment
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Damian Pattinson of @eLife (and my former boss at PLOS ONE) at The Royal Society's Future of Scientific Publishing conference describes the devastating effect on their submissions of Clarivate removing their Impact Factor due to their change in peer review model, then asks why other journals, including Science, don't renounce their own IFs.
#SciComm #JournalPublishing #ImpactFactor #Clarivate #WebOfScience #PeerReview #TheRoyalSociety #FutureOfScientificPublishing #Citations #Bibliometrics #ResearchImpact #ResearchAssessment
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The killer quote! Prestigious institutions and prestigious journals drive irreproducibility in the life sciences - well, at least in this particular sample.
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The killer quote! Prestigious institutions and prestigious journals drive irreproducibility in the life sciences - well, at least in this particular sample.
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If you share your journals' impact factors, use the 5 year indicator. The one year impact factors fluctuate, are sensitive to minor citation differences. The 5 year factors are more stable and say more about the journal. #ImpactFactor #CiteScore #JCI #academicchatter
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At #ISSI2025, Mike Thelwall suggested that the Leiden Manifesto should be updated to reflect the rise of large language models (LLMs) in research assessment.
👉 https://issi2025.iiap.sci.am/proceedings/ (P. 71-80)
He proposed four new principles — calling for transparent prompts, awareness of #LLM instability, cost-benefit considerations, and a reminder that LLM scores are not evidence of scientific contribution.
#Scientometrics #ResponsibleMetrics #OpenScience #ImpactFactor
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At #ISSI2025, Mike Thelwall suggested that the Leiden Manifesto should be updated to reflect the rise of large language models (LLMs) in research assessment.
👉 https://issi2025.iiap.sci.am/proceedings/ (P. 71-80)
He proposed four new principles — calling for transparent prompts, awareness of #LLM instability, cost-benefit considerations, and a reminder that LLM scores are not evidence of scientific contribution.
#Scientometrics #ResponsibleMetrics #OpenScience #ImpactFactor
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We are so excited to share you this good news that 2024 Impact Factor of NGIB is 6.5, ranking 52/182 in category of Energy&Fuels! Thank you all supporters! #impactfactor #naturalgas #journalmetrics #openaccess #webofscience #ESCI #SCIE
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We are so excited to share you this good news that 2024 Impact Factor of NGIB is 6.5, ranking 52/182 in category of Energy&Fuels! Thank you all supporters! #impactfactor #naturalgas #journalmetrics #openaccess #webofscience #ESCI #SCIE
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"Clarivate has announced that, from 2025 (2024 data), citations to and from retracted articles will no longer contribute towards the Journal Impact Factor." - Research Information
https://www.researchinformation.info/news/clarivate-removes-citations-to-and-from-retracted-articles-from-jif/#ImpactFactor #JournalImpactFactor #Retractions #ResearchIntegrity #PublicationEthics #Citations #Bibliometrics
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"Clarivate has announced that, from 2025 (2024 data), citations to and from retracted articles will no longer contribute towards the Journal Impact Factor." - Research Information
https://www.researchinformation.info/news/clarivate-removes-citations-to-and-from-retracted-articles-from-jif/#ImpactFactor #JournalImpactFactor #Retractions #ResearchIntegrity #PublicationEthics #Citations #Bibliometrics
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Over 100 organisations still consider eLife papers when evaluating research contributions since losing our Impact Factor: https://elifesciences.org/inside-elife/56910cbc/research-organisations-still-consider-elife-papers-in-funding-and-hiring-decisions?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=organic
Help us rally more community support for research reform and let us know your funder or institution’s stance on the #ImpactFactor 💬
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Over 100 organisations still consider eLife papers when evaluating research contributions since losing our Impact Factor: https://elifesciences.org/inside-elife/56910cbc/research-organisations-still-consider-elife-papers-in-funding-and-hiring-decisions?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=organic
Help us rally more community support for research reform and let us know your funder or institution’s stance on the #ImpactFactor 💬
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Following a great exchange on #DataCooperatives in #WashingtonDC, here's a timely opportunity:
📢 #CFP now open until 31 July!
📊 #TGPPP is on the rise:
#CiteScore 5.4 | #ImpactFactor 2.7 -
Following a great exchange on #DataCooperatives in #WashingtonDC, here's a timely opportunity:
📢 #CFP now open until 31 July!
📊 #TGPPP is on the rise:
#CiteScore 5.4 | #ImpactFactor 2.7 -
I enjoyed and appreciated this editorial on the benefits of society journals vs for profit ones, for the academic community.
I was a bit perturbed though by the mention of journal impact factors. I thought academic communities were trying to move away from using this? Is it all just talk and actually this is an honest editorial that they are not?
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I enjoyed and appreciated this editorial on the benefits of society journals vs for profit ones, for the academic community.
I was a bit perturbed though by the mention of journal impact factors. I thought academic communities were trying to move away from using this? Is it all just talk and actually this is an honest editorial that they are not?
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Forscher Ernst erfährt das #OpenAccess -#ImpactFactor -Dilemma …
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Forscher Ernst erfährt das #OpenAccess -#ImpactFactor -Dilemma …
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Neuer "Forscher-Ernst"-Comic:
"Das Dilemma mit #OpenAccess- Publishing"
Der ganze #Comic in unserem Blog: https://www.laborjournal.de/blog/?p=14158
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Neuer "Forscher-Ernst"-Comic:
"Das Dilemma mit #OpenAccess- Publishing"
Der ganze #Comic in unserem Blog: https://www.laborjournal.de/blog/?p=14158
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🔍2024 Wrap-Up: #BigDataCognitiveComputing (#ImpactFactor 3.7/ #CiteScore 7.1) explores #Dataopolies vs #Web3 #Decentralization #DataCooperatives
6,000+views!
https://mdpi.com/2504-2289/8/3/26 #OpenAccess🚀 In 2025, looking fwd 🇺🇸#USA #Detroit #WashingtonDC @digitalhumanities @digigeolab @geography @politicalscience @politicaltheory @economics @anthropology
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🔍2024 Wrap-Up: #BigDataCognitiveComputing (#ImpactFactor 3.7/ #CiteScore 7.1) explores #Dataopolies vs #Web3 #Decentralization #DataCooperatives
6,000+views!
https://mdpi.com/2504-2289/8/3/26 #OpenAccess🚀 In 2025, looking fwd 🇺🇸#USA #Detroit #WashingtonDC @digitalhumanities @digigeolab @geography @politicalscience @politicaltheory @economics @anthropology
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Following up on the #eLife / #Clarivate saga, DORA has posted a statement:
https://sfdora.org/2024/11/25/clarivates-actions-regarding-elife-doras-response/extracts:
"This development reinforces how a commercial entity such as Clarivate, can, through its ownership of scholarly databases and indices, hold the academic community to ransom. Clarivate’s announcement is disappointing as it both punishes innovation in peer review and disregards the important role of authors in deciding how and where their research should be published."
"As funders and institutions increasingly move away from using single metrics to assess research(ers), the role of Journal Impact Factors is becoming increasingly irrelevant."
"We therefore support eLife and encourage it to continue its innovation and encourage other journals to consider doing the same."
Go #eLife, Go AWAY #ImpactFactor!
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Our dialogue with Vasyl Cernat regarding Romania's evaluation reform continues in the pages of #Scientometrics. Dr. Cernat argues that MDPI’s practices - such as inflated impact factors, an abundance of special issues, low rejection rates, and rapid manuscript processing times - raise questions about the quality of 🇷🇴 publications:
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-024-05187-w
#ImpactFactor #ResearchPolicy #ResearchFunding #MDPI #journals #Romania