For some scientists, it’s the height of irony: The scientific method depends on being able to check what others have done. But the growing use of citation statistics and impact factors in academe goes ...

With an ever-growing roster of specialized scientific publications out there, how are scientists, funding agencies, and academic institutions supposed to decide which ones to take seriously? Anyone in ...

The impact factor (IF) has arguably never been less popular. But now, the controversial journal metric has another potential rival. On December 8, Elsevier introduced its own system for ranking ...

Here are six risk factors that have a very high impact on ASC value, according to responses from ASC operators to VMG Health's 2011 ValueDriver ASC Survey. For each risk factor, operators were asked ...

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 ...

Bentham Science Publishers is pleased to announce that MicroRNA has been awarded an Impact Factor ranking by Clarivate Analytics. The journal, currently edited by Dr. Alberto Izzoti (University of ...

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 ...

Rumours among junior faculty members are that reports of the death of the impact factor are greatly exaggerated. In a round of funding earlier this year, my research output was described as being in ...