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Chemistry World
July 6, 2007
Richard Van Noorden |
Whitesides Charges to the Top US chemist George Whitesides has overtaken Harvard compatriot E. J. Corey to top a league table measuring the research achievements of living chemists.   |
Chemistry World
April 23, 2007
Richard Van Noorden |
Hirsch Index Ranks Top Chemists Living chemists have been ranked in a league table based on what some argue is the fairest measure of research achievement ever devised. |
Chemistry World
December 15, 2014
Maria Burke |
Can research quality be predicted by metrics? In terms of funding and reputation, the UK's Research Excellence Framework (REF) exercise is a vital event in the academic calendar. Now a team of researchers has made predictions about the results of the latest assessment using citation-based metrics, rather than peer review. |
Chemistry World
December 2007
Philip Ball |
Column: The Crucible It seems that everyone knows and monitors their Hirsch index, a rank of the impact of a scientist's research. |
Chemistry World
April 2, 2015
Maria Burke |
Metrics failed to predict REF outcomes A team of mathematicians who used metrics to predict the outcomes of the UK's national assessment of research in 2014 have reported that their results were 'wildly inaccurate'. |
Chemistry World
October 2009 |
Column: The crucible Philip Ball rakes through the findings of new research into the h-index and unearths some top tips for citation-hungry researchers |
Wired
May 22, 2009
Guy Gugliotta |
The Genius Index: One Scientist's Crusade to Rewrite Reputation Rules The h-index is the number n of a researcher's papers that have been cited by other papers at least n times. High numbers = important science = important scientist. |
Chemistry World
July 14, 2015
Anthony King |
Metrics have their place but peer review remains king The Higher Education Funding Council for England is working on the next assessment of UK universities, the Research Excellence Framework. The outcome of REF affects the distribution of around 1.6 billion pounds of funding to universities. |
Chemistry World
December 19, 2014
Maria Burke |
'Great outcome' for chemistry in REF 2014 The REF results are hugely important to higher education institutions as they are used by the four UK funding bodies to allocate research funding. |
Chemistry World
October 24, 2013
Mark Peplow |
The judgement of your peers The San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment has almost 10,000 signatories demanding that funders and institutions stop using journal-level metrics as a basis for such decisions, and instead focus on the scientific content of papers. |
Chemistry World
April 9, 2014
Anthony King |
Metrics' role in assessing research reviewed A committee set up by Hefce (Higher Education Funding Council for England) aims to grapple with the thorny issue of using metrics to assess and manage research. Metrics have expanded to altmetrics, which track what people are saying about a paper online. |
Chemistry World
August 20, 2014
Anthony Olejniczak |
In defense of metrics As research funding fails to keep up with the growth of institutions and researchers, competition for that funding becomes increasingly fierce and purse-holders turn to various types of metrics to inform their decisions. |
Chemistry World
November 3, 2015
Andy Extance |
Gamblers judge research quality cheaply and well Getting chemists to bet on the outcome of the UK's Research Excellence Framework system for assessing university research quality could trim its costs. |
Chemistry World
March 6, 2013
Jon Evans |
Data challenges for UK chemists Academic chemists in the UK have a problem with data. That's the claim made by a report that says that both in terms of managing and sharing data produced by their own laboratories and accessing data produced by others, chemists are all at sea. |
Chemistry World
April 2012
Bibiana Campos Seijo |
Editorial: It's All About Presence Who is the living chemist you admire most and why? |
Information Today
June 9, 2008
Nancy Herther |
Elsevier Releases Scopus Journal Analyzer Subscribers to Elsevier's Scopus have a new tool to aid in evaluating journal performance over time. |
