Forcing research to fit the mould of high-impact journals weakens it. Hiring decisions should be based on merit, not impact factor, says Reinhard Werner. How do we recognize a good scientist? There is ...

In September 2010, Jason Priem, a doctoral student at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s School of Information and Library Science, was interested in promoting the value of a set of ...

Do you feel a bit late out of the gate when it comes to bibliometrics? You’re probably not alone. Bibliometrics are the quantitative ways that scholarly books, journals, and other publications can be ...

Responsible use of publication metrics to support knowledge management in universities. Bibliometrics, or publication metrics, is a field that studies research and science using scholarly publications ...

In today's world, researchers are requested not only to publish high quality research findings but enhance their access and discoverability. This page will provide you with various techniques and ...

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA. Such a discrepancy (a counting error rate of 0.7%) might not seem to matter too much in the cosmic scheme of things ...

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In a country as diverse as India, ranking universities and institutions is not an easy task. The Ministry of Education (formerly the Ministry of Human Resource Development) established the National ...