[Taxacom] San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment

[Philipp Wagner]

> ?the scientific content of a paper is much more important than publication metrics 
>or the identity of the journal in which it was published.?

Of course the scientific content is more important than 
publication metrics, especially as in taxonomy you often 
have small groups of scientists
who are able to cite such a paper.
But, especially in nomenclature and taxonomy and internet 
possibilities in recent days there should be a minimum of 
journal requirements.
Everybody can run his own writing everything he wants 
without any peer-review. So the "identity of the journal" 
should not be ignored.







> 
> 
> Is a statement of the obvious and yet one deliberately 
>overlooked way
> too often. Try for example the rant by Kaiser et al 
>(2013) who views all herpetological
> journals other than those they control as ?unworthy?. 
>The content of the
> relevant papers published elsewhere is so irrelevant 
>that they don?t even read
> them before criticising them and seeking to boycott 
>them!
> 
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>> From: E.Raab-Straube at BGBM.ORG
>> To: taxacom at mailman.nhm.ku.edu
>> Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2013 11:31:31 +0200
>> Subject: [Taxacom] San Francisco Declaration on Research 
>>Assessment
>> 
>> Dear Taxacomers,
>> 
>> the American Society for Cell Biology has initiated a 
>>declaration on research assessment (DORA), which opposes 
>>the use of the Journal Impact Factor as a measure for 
>>research quality of individuals and institutions. This 
>>message seems not to be very widespread among taxonomists 
>>so far, so I think it is worth reading the declaration at 
>> http://am.ascb.org/dora/. Interestingly, the present 
>>Editor-in-Chief of Science, Bruce Alberts, is among the 
>>first signees of that declaration.
>> 
>> Best wishes,
>> 
>> Eckhard von Raab-Straube (Berlin)
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