impact factor

Researchfish is a platform commonly used to track the status of grants and the impacts of research. When academics were critical of the company online, Researchfish shared these comments with the largest funding agency in the UK, and the scientists’ comments were sometimes shared with their employers.

Then there are the counterfeiters.

Small research groups tend to beat large collaborations when it comes to producing innovative projects and breakthrough discoveries.

Papers published in low-impact journals are not necessarily low-quality scientific contributions.

A look back at the contributions of The Scientist’s founder, scientometrics pioneer Eugene Garfield (1925–2017)

Eugene Garfield, founder of the Institute for Scientific Information and The Scientist, has passed away at age 91.

“CiteScore,” which ranks twice as many journals compared with publications assigned impact factors, makes its debut during a contentious time for journal metrics.

A combination of the traditional metric and the newer h5 index potentiates the scientific community toward more-balanced evaluation. 

Could the Relative Citation Ratio replace the oft maligned journal impact factor?

A team of editors and researchers calls on journal publishers to use citation distributions as measures of publication quality rather than relying on much-derided impact factors.

February 2016's selection of notable quotes

US scientists are more likely to coauthor papers with researchers of similar ethnicity to themselves, but manuscripts with a more diverse list of authors have greater impact, a study shows.

Scientists must find a way to estimate the seemingly immeasurable impact of their research efforts.

Panelists and attendees at the American Society for Cell Biology annual meeting considered the future of peer review and journal impact factors.

Bias in preclinical research; medical marijuana for kids; a swath of microbial genomes; plastic ocean habitats; rethinking scientific evaluation

Asymmetry in the Research Excellence Framework in the U.K. is a threat to basic medical sciences within British medical schools.

The number of retracted scientific papers has increased sharply over the past decade, while the time from publication to retraction has decreased.

A record 66 journals have been banned from this year’s impact-factor list for citation foulplay.

Journals plagiarizing journals; new immune cells combat diabetes; TB-killing vitamin C; analog cell computers; real time fish memory; ant-pitcher plant mutualism