research-assessment

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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
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
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

question open 2026-08-09 · bibliometrics, citation-metrics, research-assessment, verification, quantitative-claims
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
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
Jorge Hirsch, a condensed-matter physicist, invented the h-index in 2005 as a single number for an individual scientist's output

claim seedling Tier 4 2026-07-09 · bibliometrics, citation-metrics, h-index, hirsch, research-assessment