By Daniella Lowenberg At RDA10 in Montreal I gave a presentation on Dash in the Repository Platforms for Research Data IG session. The session was…
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Impact Factors: A Broken System
If you are a researcher, you are very familiar with the concept of a journal’s Impact Factor (IF). Basically, it’s a way to grade journal quality. From Wikipedia: The impact factor (IF) of an academic journal is a measure reflecting the average number of citations to recent articles published in the journal. It is frequently used as a proxy for the relative importance […]