Re:New academic journal only publishes 'unsurprising' resear...
by gus_massa on Friday August 21, 2020 @09:50AM
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There are many method to evaluate the work.
Sometimes it is just the count the number of published papers, or that dividing by the number of authors, or some weight if you are the first or the last author.
Number of citations, h-index, ...
About the journal, there is the impact factor and many somewhat arbitrary ranks...
A paper in a totally obscure journal that is not cited by other papers, has the same weight than a blog post.
Sometimes it is just the count the number of published papers, or that dividing by the number of authors, or some weight if you are the first or the last author.
Number of citations, h-index, ...
About the journal, there is the impact factor and many somewhat arbitrary ranks...
A paper in a totally obscure journal that is not cited by other papers, has the same weight than a blog post.