{"id":139,"date":"2006-10-05T14:24:22","date_gmt":"2006-10-05T12:24:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/146.107.134.84\/wordpress\/index.php\/2006\/10\/05\/alternative-impact-factors\/"},"modified":"2006-10-06T09:55:44","modified_gmt":"2006-10-06T07:55:44","slug":"alternative-impact-factors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/sciencesurf\/2006\/10\/alternative-impact-factors\/","title":{"rendered":"Alternative Impact Factors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is no need to say that impact factors have largely failed to measure scientific value &#8211; even within selected groups (<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Impact_factor\">look for the Wikipedia article<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>But are there any alternatives to ISI-Thompson? I haven&#8217;t found so many, the Hirsch factor, Google Scholar page rank, or Elseviers Scopus. Of course download  figures of open access journals help to define popularity. But is this impact?<\/p>\n<p>The latest development are citation management systems like  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.citeulike.org\/user\/WJST\">CiteULike<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.connotea.org\/\">Connotea<\/a> that require to make all your readings public. Maybe its true what 80-year-old Garfield wrote in the <a href=\"http:\/\/bmj.bmjjournals.com\/cgi\/content\/full\/313\/7054\/411\">BMJ<\/a>: &#8220;there is no substitute for judgement, quality, and relevance. Impact and other citation measures merely report facts.&#8221; So blogs are even more important, yea, yea.<\/p>\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"bottom-note\">\n  <span class=\"mod1\">CC-BY-NC Science Surf , accessed 15.05.2026<\/span>\n <\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is no need to say that impact factors have largely failed to measure scientific value &#8211; even within selected groups (look for the Wikipedia article). But are there any alternatives to ISI-Thompson? I haven&#8217;t found so many, the Hirsch factor, Google Scholar page rank, or Elseviers Scopus. Of course download figures of open access &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/sciencesurf\/2006\/10\/alternative-impact-factors\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Alternative Impact Factors<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[13,2946],"class_list":["post-139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-philosophy-of-science","tag-history-insights","tag-philosophy-of-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}