{"id":1435,"date":"2008-01-07T19:00:50","date_gmt":"2008-01-07T17:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/2008\/01\/07\/finally-a-true-alternative-to-thomson-isi%c2%ae-impact-factors\/"},"modified":"2008-01-08T12:03:55","modified_gmt":"2008-01-08T10:03:55","slug":"finally-a-true-alternative-to-thomson-isi%c2%ae-impact-factors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/sciencesurf\/2008\/01\/finally-a-true-alternative-to-thomson-isi%c2%ae-impact-factors\/","title":{"rendered":"Finally: A true alternative to Thomson ISI\u00c2\u00ae  impact factors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>That was even worth a note in Nature News that finally a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/news\/2008\/080102\/full\/451006a.html\" >free journal-ranking tool entered the citation market<\/a>. The attack came by an article in JCB (&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.jcb.org\/cgi\/content\/full\/179\/6\/1091\">Show me the data<\/a>&#8220;), the <a href=\"http:\/\/scientific.thomson.com\/citationimpactforum\/8427045\/\">response was weak<\/a>. Sooooooo <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scimagojr.com\/\">we have a choice now<\/a> which of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/2007\/06\/04\/impact-the-only-currency-that-counts\/\">metric indices<\/a> is being the worsest way to rate a researcher (if you can&#8217;t understand otherwise what she\/he his doing).<br \/>\nBTW individual IF reporting was never intended but ISI but is now common use in many countries. I don\u00c2\u00b4t believe (as Decan Butler explains) that there is so much difference between popularity and prestige &#8211; but there is a big difference between popularity and quality.<\/p>\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"bottom-note\">\n  <span class=\"mod1\">CC-BY-NC Science Surf , accessed 09.04.2026<\/span>\n <\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That was even worth a note in Nature News that finally a free journal-ranking tool entered the citation market. The attack came by an article in JCB (&#8220;Show me the data&#8220;), the response was weak. Sooooooo we have a choice now which of the metric indices is being the worsest way to rate a researcher &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/sciencesurf\/2008\/01\/finally-a-true-alternative-to-thomson-isi%c2%ae-impact-factors\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Finally: A true alternative to Thomson ISI\u00c2\u00ae  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":[1488,1489,659,1490,1487,1486,1485],"class_list":["post-1435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-philosophy-of-science","tag-hirsch","tag-citation","tag-impact","tag-isi","tag-populartiy","tag-prestige","tag-quality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1435","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=1435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1435\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}