How science can beat the flawed metric that rules it
Wednesday, July 30, 2014 - 08:01
in Mathematics & Economics
In order to improve something, we need to be able to measure its quality. This is true in public policy, in commercial industries, and also in science. Like other fields, science has a growing need for quantitative evaluation of its products: scientific studies. However, the dominant metric used for this purpose is widely considered to be flawed. It is the journal impact factor.