Science and Publishing

May 30, 2023 / Melody Smith / Comments Off on Science and Publishing

Evaluating scientific quality is a notoriously difficult problem which has no standard solution. Ideally, published scientific results should be scrutinized by true experts in the field and given scores for quality according to established rules. Journal impact is usually a synonym for impact factors and other scores based on the average number of citations received by a particular journal in a particular period. Journal impact is not an indicator of the quality of individual studies published in that journal. The Scholarly Kitchen brought this interesting information to our attention in their article, “How Related are Journal Impact and Research Impact?“

Most researchers acknowledge an intrinsic hierarchy in the scholarly journals to which they submit their work and adjust not only their submission but also their reading strategies accordingly. On the other hand, much has been written about the negative effects of institutionalizing journal rank as an impact measure.

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Melody Smith

Melody K. Smith has provided organizational, social media and digital communication services to a large non-profit for the past twenty years. Prior to that she championed employee engagement and communications in the healthcare field. She holds a Bachelors degree in Marketing. When not wrangling and writing TaxoDiary content for your reading pleasure, Melody writes fiction, rescues dogs and throws legendary dinner parties.