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There's been an attempt to measure paper quality using the "impact factor", but as with seemingly every measure, it's led to shenanigans. Some publishers encou
by dubya 15y ago
There's been an attempt to measure paper quality using the "impact factor", but as with seemingly every measure, it's led to shenanigans. Some publishers encourage authors to cite papers from their journals, and some editors write survey papers that happen to cite a bunch of articles from their journals. A recent AMS Notices covered this in math, and I sort of expect it's worse in other disciplines.
- mynegation 15y agoTo me it looks a lot like a manipulation of search engine. Maybe Google or Microsoft will not disclose their rank inflation counter-tactics, but what they could do is to provide their solution for this specific verticals. As much as I'd like open-source effort for that, I understand that knowing the rules allows easy manipulation.
- dasmoth 15y agoWell, there already is Google Scholar. I don't know precisely how much effort goes into the ranking algorithms used there -- but I do already use it in preference to Pubmed.