Impact factor !?

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Peter Lawrence是我非常欣賞的科學家之一, 目前在劍橋大學當年解開DNA雙螺旋
結構的MRC實驗室研究果蠅胚胎發育, 同時也是Development, Cell, 和EMBO Journal
的編輯. 他最近寫了一篇文章批判: 學界運用期刊點數論斷科學家的習慣, 將嚴重
扼殺科學發展 (暫且不論是否影響年輕人的前途).

  The Politics of Publication.
  Nature 422: 259 (March 20, 2003).


這篇文章引起很多迴響, 包括這一篇:

  Challenging the tyranny of impact factors.
  Nature 423: 479 (May 29, 2003).

謹錄一段文字如下, 供大家, 台大, 以及汲汲推動個人點數計算制度的決策者參考:

Perhaps one way to cope with the problem is to turn it on its head.
Candidates can judge institutions by the questions they ask, rather than
the other way round. Any selection or promotion committee that asks you
for impact factors is probably a second-rate organization. A good place
will want to know about the quality of what you have written, not where
you published it — and will be aware that the two things are
uncorrelated. A useful method for job interviews that has been used in
our department is to ask candidates to nominate their best three or four
papers, then question them on the content of those papers. This selects
against publication of over-condensed reports in high-impact journals
(unless it is one of the relatively few genuinely important papers of
this type).



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