article-level metrics and the evolution of scientific impactarticle-level指标和科学的演变的影响.pdfVIP

Perspective Article-Level Metrics and the Evolution of Scientific Impact 1 2 Cameron Neylon , Shirley Wu * 1 Science and Technology Facilities Council, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Didcot, United Kingdom, 2 23andMe, Mountain View, California, United States of America Formally published papers that have fields far too many journals and papers to factor—or any other journal-based metric been through a traditional prepublication follow. for that matter—cannot escape an even peer review process remain the most As a result, we need good filters for more fundamental problem: it is simply important means of communicating sci- quality, importance, and relevance to not designed to capture qualities of ence today. Researchers depend on them apply to scientific literature. There are individual papers. to learn about the latest advances in their many we could use but the majority of fields and to report their own findings. scientists filter by preferentially reading Article-Level Metrics The intentions of traditional peer review articles from specific journals—those they are certainly noble: to ensure methodo- view as the highest quality and the most If choosing which articles to read on logical integrity and to comment on important. These selections are highly the basis of journal-level metrics is potential significance of experimental subjective but the authors’ personal expe- not effective, then we need a measure studies through examination by a panel rience