{"id":6267,"date":"2013-11-07T13:31:20","date_gmt":"2013-11-07T11:31:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/?p=6267"},"modified":"2013-11-07T13:31:20","modified_gmt":"2013-11-07T11:31:20","slug":"negative-metrics-is-not-such-a-bad-idea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/sciencesurf\/2013\/11\/negative-metrics-is-not-such-a-bad-idea\/","title":{"rendered":"Negative metrics is not such a bad idea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/nature\/journal\/v497\/n7450\/full\/497439a.html\">Nature<\/a> recently raised an extremely important point<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Research metrics are ambiguous \u2014 a paper may be cited for positive or negative reasons. Funding agencies and universities focus on positive impact in evaluating research, which increasingly includes alternative metrics. We think that researchers can generate a more complete account of their impact by including seemingly negative indicators \u2014 such as confrontations with important people or legal action \u2014 as well as those that seem positive.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yea, yea.<\/p>\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"bottom-note\">\n  <span class=\"mod1\">CC-BY-NC Science Surf , accessed 13.04.2026<\/span>\n <\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nature recently raised an extremely important point Research metrics are ambiguous \u2014 a paper may be cited for positive or negative reasons. Funding agencies and universities focus on positive impact in evaluating research, which increasingly includes alternative metrics. We think that researchers can generate a more complete account of their impact by including seemingly negative &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/sciencesurf\/2013\/11\/negative-metrics-is-not-such-a-bad-idea\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Negative metrics is not such a bad idea<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-philosophy-of-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6267","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=6267"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6267\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6410,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6267\/revisions\/6410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}