Journal impact factors in peer review metrics: useful or harmful?
A couple of weeks ago we added a few new stats to Publons reviewer profiles. One of the new metrics was the average impact factor of »
5 Things the H-index Can't Tell You
The h-index is a commonly used measure that aims to encapsulate a scientist's productivity and impact into a single number. The metric is named for physicist »
How "publish or perish" is slowing down science
Here at Publons, our goal is to speed up science by creating a community around peer review and scientific discussion that gives credit where credit is »
Beyond the impact factor: evaluating research via direct peer evaluations
This is our third post in a series discussing the way we evaluate scientific research. In our first post we examined the impact factor, which seems »
Why would we want another way of evaluating scientific research? (Part II)
This is the second post in the evaluating research series from the Publons R&D team. In the first post we showed that across six »
Why would we want another way of evaluating scientific research?
This is the first in a series of blog posts from the Publons R&D team, who are looking to investigate and experiment with superior »