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 ...

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 ...

Academia in the Netherlands has erupted in disagreement over the move by a Dutch university to stop considering journal impact factors when deciding whether to hire or promote academics. Researchers ...