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Guide Introduction
The goal of this guide is to assist faculty members, research staff, and graduate students in understanding how to use impact metrics
tools currently available.
Considerations need to be made in regards to the role that the author, content, source, impact, ranking, and benchmark have on the
research cycle.
Four main areas can be used to determine the impact of research:
Author Impact
Article Impact
Journal/Source Impact
Institutional Impact
Limitations on Impact Factors
With any statistical measurement, there willl always be limitations of the data. Things to keep in mind:
Errors on citations can lead to multiple entries and missed citations.
Author and institutional naming inconsistencies can lead to multiple entries and missed citations.
Different databases use different sources to generate data. Some databases are more comprehensive than others.
These tools are highly skewed toward STEM (science, technology, engineering, medicine) scholars.
Citations do not measure the number of times a work has been read or accessed.
Citations are not and should not be the only indicator of the importance of a work.
The San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA), run by the American Society for Cell Biology, has partnered with
editors and publishers to ask the scientific community to stop misusing impact factors as a metric to judge scientific output.
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