Did you get an email inviting you to Kudos from your publisher? Well, if so, now you are probably wondering if it is worth spending some time on setting up another personal researcher profile on the web. So lets have a look at Kudos, what […]
The digital landscape has brought new opportunities and challenges to the evaluation of research across different academic disciplines. How does open science influence this already complex landscape? Is there any difference in evaluating research in different disciplines? Milena Dobreva* looks at historical developments and then at […]
How will a “post-impact factor” world look like? I hope that scholars will not be forced to choose between journals that guarantee career advancement and open access any more. More than 3 years ago a group of researchers, publishers and representatives of the academic associations […]
For 74 Taiwanese researchers, the mean citation score is 1,29 time higher for their works published in open access journals than for those submitted in traditional venues. It would be good to confirm this output for a big sample of researchers working in various countries […]
Thomson Reuters unfairly targets small journals and niche titles. This policy can result in the quicker death of some research topics that could otherwise thrive. Thomson Reuters can suppress a journal from the Journal Citation Report for one review article it has published. How is […]
If the career opportunities, research funding and awards of Claude Shannon had depended on his h-index, he would have been in serious trouble. Even though his works were absolutely revolutionary and he created the basis for the recent digital revolution, he did not like to […]
I am pleased to present the interview with Antonio Facchetti, Adjunct Professor of Chemistry at Northwestern University, who was named Highly Cited Scientist by Thomson Reuters in July 2014 and is the editor in chief of ‘Organic Photonics and Photovoltaics’. The journal was established by […]
Three publicists working at Nature revealed their study on the 100 most cited scientific articles of all time, based on data provided by Thomson Reuters from their Web of Science database. For me, the most interesting part of the article is the xlsx file, which […]
Publons is a startup project and a website focusing on the peer review process. Thus, it is the next attempt to solve the widely discussed problems concerning a crucial point of scientific publishing. “Just as the electron is the fundamental unit of electricity, the publon […]
This is the conclusion of a recent paper by Lutz Bornmann, a sociologist of science working at the Max Planck Society. The paper itself was only published on ArXiv and it was probably not peer reviewed in a formal way, but for me it seems […]