Article-level metrics and the evolution of scientific impact
PERSPECTIVE Formally published papers that have been through a traditional prepublication peer review process remain the most important means of communicating science today. Researchers depend on them to learn about the latest advances in their fields and to report their own findings. The i...
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Formally published papers that have
been through a traditional prepublication
peer review process remain the most
important means of communicating science today. Researchers depend on them
to learn about the latest advances in their
fields and to report their own findings.
The intentions of traditional peer review
are certainly noble: to ensure methodological integrity and to comment on
potential significance of experimental
studies through examination by a panel
of objective, expert colleagues. In principle, this system enables science to move
forward on the collective confidence of
previously published work. Unfortunately,
the traditional system has inspired methods of measuring impact that are suboptimal for their intended uses. |
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| language | English |
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| spelling | curtin-20.500.11937-814652021-01-13T03:09:38Z Article-level metrics and the evolution of scientific impact Neylon, Cameron Wu, S. Science & Technology Life Sciences & Biomedicine Biochemistry & Molecular Biology Biology Life Sciences & Biomedicine - Other Topics PERSPECTIVE Formally published papers that have been through a traditional prepublication peer review process remain the most important means of communicating science today. Researchers depend on them to learn about the latest advances in their fields and to report their own findings. The intentions of traditional peer review are certainly noble: to ensure methodological integrity and to comment on potential significance of experimental studies through examination by a panel of objective, expert colleagues. In principle, this system enables science to move forward on the collective confidence of previously published work. Unfortunately, the traditional system has inspired methods of measuring impact that are suboptimal for their intended uses. 2009 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/81465 10.1371/journal.pbio.1000242 English http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ PUBLIC LIBRARY SCIENCE fulltext |
| spellingShingle | Science & Technology Life Sciences & Biomedicine Biochemistry & Molecular Biology Biology Life Sciences & Biomedicine - Other Topics Neylon, Cameron Wu, S. Article-level metrics and the evolution of scientific impact |
| title | Article-level metrics and the evolution of scientific impact |
| title_full | Article-level metrics and the evolution of scientific impact |
| title_fullStr | Article-level metrics and the evolution of scientific impact |
| title_full_unstemmed | Article-level metrics and the evolution of scientific impact |
| title_short | Article-level metrics and the evolution of scientific impact |
| title_sort | article-level metrics and the evolution of scientific impact |
| topic | Science & Technology Life Sciences & Biomedicine Biochemistry & Molecular Biology Biology Life Sciences & Biomedicine - Other Topics |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/81465 |