Rethinking impact factors: better ways to judge a journal

Paul Wouters (), Cassidy R. Sugimoto, Vincent Larivière, Marie E. McVeigh, Bernd Pulverer, Sarah de Rijcke and Ludo Waltman

Nature, 2019, vol. 569, issue 7758, 621-623

Abstract: We need a broader, more-transparent suite of metrics to improve science publishing, say Paul Wouters, colleagues and co-signatories.

Keywords: Publishing; Research management (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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