Not everything that counts can be counted

• Authors: Andrzej Kajetan Wróblewski
• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

PL

A review is presented of the history of ‘impact factor’ since its introduction in 1955 by Eugene Garfield for assessing scientific periodicals to its present degeneration in the hands of science administrators who enforce its use to classify scientists. Arguments are presented against that procedure. Recently there has been an increase of resistance among scientists and the editors of periodicals who call for replacing bibliometric parameters by peer review assessment of publications.

Keywords

EN

bibliometrics; impact factor; citations; Hirsch index; DORA Declaration

• Publisher: Biuro Upowszechniania i Promocji Nauki PAN
• Journal: Nauka
• Year: 2017
• Issue: 1

Dates

published

2017

online

2017-03-23

Contributors

author

Andrzej Kajetan Wróblewski