Does higher education need another ranking? For Elsevier, the answer is yes. Last week, the publisher launched CiteScore, a set of metrics that measure a scholarly journal’s impact by looking at the ...

Medical publishing, one of the oldest continuous scientific traditions, is growing exponentially. New medical journals dedicated to increasingly niche microcosms are being created every day. Yet ...

Although Richard Monastersky describes a real problem — the abuse of journals’ impact factors — its solution is so obvious that we hardly need so many words on the subject (“The Number That’s ...

Nature and the Nature journals are diversifying their presentation of performance indicators. Metrics are intrinsically reductive and, as such, can be dangerous. Relying on them as a yardstick of ...

As someone who knows little about impact factors, I was riveted by Donald R. Paul’s talk at the 2014 conference of American Chemical Society journal editors. Paul is the Ernest Cockrell Sr. Chair in ...

Many researchers still see the journal impact factor (JIF) as a key metric for promotions and tenure, despite concerns that it’s a flawed measure of a researcher’s value. A journal’s impact factor ...

The impact factor, a decades-old metric that purports to measure the quality of journals, is a bit like a corrupt bureaucrat: overly powerful, largely incompetent, and widely feared. But the bureau ...

A measure originally intended for ranking the value of journals to researchers may have a distorting influence on publishers, as well as on agencies that finance research, writes Hannah Brown, a ...

Trickery by editors to boost their journal impact factor means that the widely used metric “has now lost most of its credibility,” according to Research Policy journal. With many editors now engaged ...