Thursday, June 17, 2010

Do science metrics measure up?

Special issue van Naturenews: Science Metrics.

"Since the invention of the science citation index in the 1960s, quantitative measuring of the performance of researchers has become ever more prevalent, controversial and influential. Numbers have been developed to track how many papers a researcher publishes, how often they are cited, and much more. Nature takes a look at the explosion of new metrics that have been invented in recent years, to find out what they measure, whether it is worth measuring, and the impact that this measuring has".

Met ondermeer:
*Do metrics matter?
* A profusion of measures

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