[INDOLOGY] Impact factors, citation metrics, etc.

[Richard Mahoney]

See also (the podcast is fuller):

London Review of Books
Vol. 37 No. 6 · 19 March 2015
pages 8-14 | 5142 words

Learning My Lesson
Marina Warner on the disfiguring of higher education

http://www.lrb.co.uk/v37/n06/marina-warner/learning-my-lesson



On 12/03/15 22:53, Dominik Wujastyk wrote:
> "AltMetrics [and impact factors] are numbers generated by people who
> don't understand research, for people who don't understand research. 
> 
> People who read papers and understand research just don't need them and
> should shun them."
> 
> -- ​https://twitter.com/NickSevdalis/status/575679216089362432/photo/1



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