H-index: The hottest topic in information science today
In late 2005, Jorge E. Hirsch, Professor of Physics at the University of California, San Diego, published an article describing the h-index, which, he called “a useful index to characterize the scientific output of a researcher.” (See J.E. Hirsch, “An index to quantify an individual’s scientific research output,” PNAS, 102(46): 16569-72, 15 November 2005.
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Thomson Scientific Speaks with David Tempest, Elsevier
As Associate Director of Research and Academic Relations for Elsevier, one of the world’s foremost scholarly publishers, bibliometrician David Tempest and his team provide the analysis to advise Elsevier’s 2,000 journals on maximizing their quality. He is a frequent lecturer on the uses (and misuses) of Impact Factor. Today, David talks with Thomson Scientific about the relationship between Impact Factor and journal quality, and Elsevier’s commitment to best practice with the use of bibliometrics.
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Thomson Scientific Corrects Inaccuracies In Editorial
Article Titled "Show me the Data", Journal of Cell Biology, Vol. 179, No. 6, 1091-1092, 17 December 2007 (doi: 10.1083/jcb.200711140) is Misleading and Inaccurate
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Thomson Scientific speaks with Jim Testa, Thomson Scientific's Director of Editorial Development, about Impact Factor
As Thomson Scientific's Director of Editorial Development, Jim Testa travels the globe working with researchers, institutions and scholarly journals to understand their research needs in the areas of both content and evaluation. Here, we talk with Jim about the controversial, yet ever present Impact Factor, a proprietary measure of journal influence created in the 1950s by Thomson Scientific's Chairman Emeritus, (ISI Founder) Dr. Eugene Garfield.
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Thomson Scientific speaks with Jim Pringle, Thomson Scientific's Vice President of Product Development, about Impact Factor
Today, Jim Pringle, Thomson Scientific Vice President of Product Development, shares with us his insights into research performance metrics, including his unique perspective of the much-talked-about Journal Impact Factor.
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