Description
Science is obsessed with metrics for the assessment of researchers and their outputs. Impact factors, citation counts and the h-index are now entrenched in academic culture, but is this a good thing? The evidence suggests that it is not. Worse still, there is a noticeable lack of evidence to support the use of these metrics in guiding research assessment. Thus, we're faced with the irony that science is evidence-based, yet scientists themselves have embraced a method of assessment that is tellingly lacking in any empirical basis.In this talk, I discuss the current situation and how to resolve it. Let's stop obsessing over journals and 'impact' and rebalance our focus on robust, reliable and open research.
| Period | 4 Jun 2019 |
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| Event title | FAIR Science: tricky problems and creative solutions |
| Event type | Conference |
| Location | Edinburgh, United KingdomShow on map |
| Degree of Recognition | Regional |