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... research papers from NEJM and Science that appeared in the altmetrics top 100 for 2013; while many of these criticisms seems valid, the ... it is. Scientists don’t count: why you should ignore altmetrics and other bibliometric nightmares David Colquhoun1 and Andrew ...
Jump to latest diary entries This is a story of everyday researchers and teachers, struggling to do their job in a world pervaded by management bollocks. This page is a continuation of the diary that started in June 2007, with the demise of UCL’s ...
... produce are mere random errors. Metrics, and still more altmetrics, are far too crude to measure the quality of science. To hope to do ...
... the publicity led to much retweeting and a big altmetrics score. Given that the paper was not open access, it’s likely ... surely after a well-powered study, not before it. The high altmetrics score for this paper is yet another blow to the reputation of ...
... women. This makes it not worth consideration by HEFCE. Altmetrics Given the role given to “impact” in the REF, the fact that altmetrics claim to measure impact might make them seem worthy of consideration ...
... has contributed to this harm. Of all the proposed methods, altmetrics is demonstrably the most idiotic. Yet some vice-chancellors have ...
... This paper constitutes yet another failure of altmetrics. (see more examples on this blog). Not surprisingly, given the ...
... London meeting. I was on a panel that discussed “altmetrics”, the latest daft idea of the bibliometrics folks. I thought I ... November, when she supported my views on the absurdity of altmetrics. She also shares my interest in the profiteering behaviour of ...
Jump to follow-up Academic staff are going to be fired at Queen Mary University of London (QMUL). It’s possible that universities may have to contract a bit in hard times, so what’s wrong? What’s wrong is that the victims are being select ...
Jump to follow-up Peter A. Lawrence of the Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, and the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge has written a beautifully argued article, The Mismeasurement of Science. It appeared in Current Biology, Augus ...