FW: Join the Impact Factor Insurrection; Sign DORA

Wed May 22 06:47:41 EDT 2013

You can find some useful information on journal evaluation (and the limits of JIF) in:
Stefanie Haustein: Multidimensional journal evaluation. Analyzing scientific periodicals beyond the impact factor. Berlin: De Gruyter Saur, 2012.

Best,
Wolf Stock

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FWIW, here is a critical response to the DORA initiative: http://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2013/05/21/impact-crater-does-dora-need-to-attack-the-impact-factor-to-reform-how-the-it-is-used-in-academia/

kind regards - jesper schneider

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Subject: [SIGMETRICS] FW: Join the Impact Factor Insurrection; Sign DORA

Fyi.

Best,
Loet

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Date: Tuesday, May 21, 2013 2:54 PM

Subject: Join the Impact Factor Insurrection; Sign DORA

Dear ASCB Current and Lapsed Members,

ASCB is leading a “scholarly insurrection,” with the San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment, DORA for short, to reduce the impact of journal impact factors (JIF) on scientific assessment. Our allies include AAAS, HHMI, EMBO, and numerous other societies, institutions, and individuals. JIF were created for buying library subscriptions, but they have been misused as an all-purpose metric to assess the quality of science. This is deeply flawed, so the coalition wants to steer the scientific community back to a focus on the content of papers, not the impact factor of the journal where they happen to be published.

Please help us spread the word about DORA: http://am.ascb.org/dora/. We hope you will sign the declaration, and encourage all your scientific colleagues to do so as well. 

We started with 155 individual and 78 institutional signers. In three business days, the numbers have grown to over 800 and over 100, respectively. But we are aiming for 5,000 signers, so we need your help!

Thanks for helping ASCB and the entire scientific community with this important initiative.

Stefano Bertuzzi
ASCB Executive Director

The American Society for Cell Biology
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