Math is Hard: Impact Factors and other number-crunching of scientific literature

Posted on June 2, 2008 by | 1 Comment

Ethics in Science and Environmental Politics has devoted an entire issue to the question of the use and misuse of bibliometric indices in evaluating scholarly performance. All articles are Open Access. I’d like to see the responses on blogs – let me know if you write/read one, please.
Peter does the first one.

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One response to “Math is Hard: Impact Factors and other number-crunching of scientific literature”

  1. Bjoern Brembs's avatar Bjoern Brembs | June 3, 2008 at 11:34 am |

    What a great special issue! Thanks for posting the link! I’ve collected some quotes from the articles:
    http://bjoern.brembs.net/news.php?item.369