[Taxacom] are journal-ranking algorithms code-compliant?

[Dr Brian Taylor]

Citation Index was being actively promoted over 40 years ago and even
earlier my then boss (a medic) commented that as a scientist I "had to
publish or perish", so it is a bit late to hope to change that system.  As a
taxonomist take comfort in that fact that we cite papers, e.g Linnaeus, that
go back well over 200 years.




On 14/04/2015 23:18, "Stephen Thorpe" <stephen_thorpe at yahoo.co.nz> wrote:

> Fred asked: Why does anyone participate in this business, and how did it
> obtain its stranglehold on evaluations?

An interesting question, for which I
> will suggest tentative answers. Firstly, it is more sensible in theory than it
> is in practice. ALL OTHER THINGS BEING EQUAL, an article with more citations
> is "better" (more relevant to science and/or society) than one with fewer
> citations. Of course, one with 10 citations isn't really better than one with
> 9 citations, but one with 1000 citations is better than one with 10. But, the
> crucial point is that ALL OTHER THINGS ARE NEVER EQUAL! We are now in a silly
> position of comparing apples with strawberries, rather than apples with
> apples! Secondly, I think we need to understand it from the perspective of
> managers. They are not in a position to judge "quality", so they try to
> quantify "quality" by way of some objective measure. The problem is that when
> you put together the above two factors, the result is
> nonsense!

Stephen

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On Wed,
> 15/4/15, Fred Schueler <bckcdb at istar.ca> wrote:

 Subject: Re: [Taxacom] are
> journal-ranking algorithms code-compliant?
 To: taxacom at mailman.nhm.ku.edu

> Received: Wednesday, 15 April, 2015, 10:55 AM
 
 On 4/14/2015 4:38 PM,

> Michael A. Ivie wrote:
 > If anyone is
 thinking that citing the paper is
> going to help impact
 > factors, think again, as only the
 citations in the
> first 2  years post
 >
 publication are counted.  The half-life of a
> taxonomic
 paper may be 50
 > years, but that does
 not matter.
 
 * bringing
> the
 discussion back to my initial point of the foolishness of
 
 this
> procedure. Why does anyone participate
 in this business, and how 
 did it
> obtain its
 stranglehold on evaluations?
 
 fred.

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