Survey finds that 40% of research-intensive universities mention the controversial metric in review documents — despite efforts to dampen its influence. Almost half of research-intensive universities ...

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 ...

Bibliometric analysis is crucial for evaluating scientific publications, traditionally relying on metrics like citation count ...

Chicago, June 30, 2023 – JAMA and the journals in the JAMA Network are among the highest in their respective fields, according to the 2023 update to Clarivate’s annual Journal Citation Reports (JCR). ...

As a young scientist whose career will be affected by the use, misuse, or disregard of impact factors, I am put off daily by the scrolling banner at the top of the Journal of the American Chemical ...

The latest edition of Journal Citation Reports® 2018 has been recently published, and according to the report, 41 Bentham Science Publishers (BSP) journals have received Impact Factor ratings. Current ...

WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Human Factors and Ergonomics Society (HFES), the world’s largest scientific association for human factors/ergonomics professionals, announced that the society’s ...

Many scientists today have ready access to services like SciFinder and Reaxys to help them find and evaluate scientific papers and chemical ­information relevant to their research. It wasn’t always so ...