Deep Impact: Unintended consequences of journal rank
B. Brembs, и M. Munafò. (2013)cite arxiv:1301.3748Comment: 5244 words, 120 references, one figure, one table and one supplemental figure (the raw data for table 1).
Аннотация
Much has been said about the increasing bureaucracy in science, stifling
innovation, hampering the creativity of researchers and incentivizing
misconduct, even outright fraud. Many anecdotes have been recounted,
observations described and conclusions drawn about the negative impact of
impact assessment on scientists and science. However, few of these accounts
have drawn their conclusions from data, and those that have typically relied on
a few studies. In this review, we present the most recent and pertinent data on
the consequences that our current scholarly communication system has had on
various measures of scientific quality (such as utility/citations,
methodological soundness, expert ratings and retractions). These data confirm
previous suspicions: using journal rank as an assessment tool is bad scientific
practice. Moreover, the data lead us to argue that any journal rank (not only
the currently-favored Impact Factor) would have this negative impact.
Therefore, we suggest that abandoning journals altogether, in favor of a
library-based scholarly communication system, will ultimately be necessary.
This new system will use modern information technology to vastly improve the
filter, sort and discovery function of the current journal system.
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%T Deep Impact: Unintended consequences of journal rank
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%X Much has been said about the increasing bureaucracy in science, stifling
innovation, hampering the creativity of researchers and incentivizing
misconduct, even outright fraud. Many anecdotes have been recounted,
observations described and conclusions drawn about the negative impact of
impact assessment on scientists and science. However, few of these accounts
have drawn their conclusions from data, and those that have typically relied on
a few studies. In this review, we present the most recent and pertinent data on
the consequences that our current scholarly communication system has had on
various measures of scientific quality (such as utility/citations,
methodological soundness, expert ratings and retractions). These data confirm
previous suspicions: using journal rank as an assessment tool is bad scientific
practice. Moreover, the data lead us to argue that any journal rank (not only
the currently-favored Impact Factor) would have this negative impact.
Therefore, we suggest that abandoning journals altogether, in favor of a
library-based scholarly communication system, will ultimately be necessary.
This new system will use modern information technology to vastly improve the
filter, sort and discovery function of the current journal system.
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innovation, hampering the creativity of researchers and incentivizing
misconduct, even outright fraud. Many anecdotes have been recounted,
observations described and conclusions drawn about the negative impact of
impact assessment on scientists and science. However, few of these accounts
have drawn their conclusions from data, and those that have typically relied on
a few studies. In this review, we present the most recent and pertinent data on
the consequences that our current scholarly communication system has had on
various measures of scientific quality (such as utility/citations,
methodological soundness, expert ratings and retractions). These data confirm
previous suspicions: using journal rank as an assessment tool is bad scientific
practice. Moreover, the data lead us to argue that any journal rank (not only
the currently-favored Impact Factor) would have this negative impact.
Therefore, we suggest that abandoning journals altogether, in favor of a
library-based scholarly communication system, will ultimately be necessary.
This new system will use modern information technology to vastly improve the
filter, sort and discovery function of the current journal system.},
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