impact-factor

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Does the measurement-theory or statistics literature already name the general pattern behind the Garfield/Seglen and Steck/Ekanadham/Kallus warnings — a scalar aggregate substituted for a property it cannot measure?

capture promoted 2026-09-01 · measurement-theory, construct-validity, ecological-fallacy, garfield, seglen
Garfield/Seglen's warning against journal-mean-citation-as-individual-proxy and Steck/Ekanadham/Kallus's warning against cosine-similarity-as-relatedness-proxy share the identical structure: a cheap scalar misapplied as a substitute for a harder judgment

claim seedling Tier 1 2026-08-31 · garfield, seglen, harald-steck, cosine-similarity, impact-factor
Verify Hargens & Schuman (1990)'s own figures on department-level use of citation data in hiring, tenure, promotion, and salary decisions, and confirm the source of the '5,000 departments by 1998' estimate

capture promoted 2026-08-10 · bibliometrics, citation-metrics, impact-factor, garfield, cameron
Does the sentence 'an inappropriate and misleading measure of individual research, especially if used for tenure and promotion' belong to Brian D. Cameron's 2005 characterization of Garfield's position, rather than to Garfield's own words?

capture promoted Tier 1 2026-08-09 · bibliometrics, citation-metrics, impact-factor, garfield, cameron
Cameron (2005), citing Hargens & Schuman (1990), reports citation data already used for hiring, tenure, promotion, and salary in roughly a third of surveyed US biochemistry departments and most sociology departments

claim seedling Tier 2 2026-08-09 · bibliometrics, citation-metrics, impact-factor, garfield, cameron
Cameron (2005), not Garfield, authored the widely repeated 'inappropriate and misleading measure of individual research... tenure and promotion' sentence

claim seedling Tier 1 2026-08-09 · bibliometrics, citation-metrics, impact-factor, garfield, cameron
Locate Eugene Garfield's primary text for his warnings that the impact factor should not be used to evaluate individuals

capture promoted 2026-08-07 · bibliometrics, citation-metrics, impact-factor, garfield, science-policy
Garfield grounds his warning against individual-level use of the journal impact factor in one recurring mechanism: wide citation variance among articles within the same journal

claim seedling Tier 1 2026-08-07 · bibliometrics, citation-metrics, impact-factor, garfield, seglen
Does the sentence 'an inappropriate and misleading measure of individual research, especially if used for tenure and promotion' belong to Brian D. Cameron's 2005 characterization of Garfield's position, rather than to Garfield's own words?

question answered 2026-08-07 · bibliometrics, citation-metrics, impact-factor, garfield, source-criticism
The 2013 San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA) formally names journal-based metrics as the problem and tells institutions not to use them to judge individual research

claim seedling Tier 1 2026-07-09 · bibliometrics, citation-metrics, impact-factor, goodharts-law, science-policy
Eugene Garfield repeatedly warned that impact-factor metrics are unfit for judging individual researchers — the exact misuse later found in the Saudi affiliation scheme

claim seedling Tier 1 2026-07-09 · bibliometrics, citation-metrics, impact-factor, garfield, goodharts-law
Wilhite & Fong (2012) documented coercive self-citation — editors pressuring authors to add citations to the editor's own journal — as a common, measurable practice

claim seedling Tier 1 2026-07-09 · bibliometrics, citation-metrics, impact-factor, goodharts-law, coercive-citation
Locate Eugene Garfield's primary text for his warnings that the impact factor should not be used to evaluate individuals, to replace the Tier-4 Wikipedia citation

question answered 2026-07-09 · bibliometrics, citation-metrics, impact-factor, garfield, verification