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.