Attention Researchers!
A warning from the University of Hong Kong:
"According to the latest research results, the presence of simple hyphens in the titles of academic papers adversely affects the citation statistics, regardless of the quality of the articles. The phenomenon applies to all major subject areas. Thus, citation counts and journal impact factors, commonly used for professorial evaluations in universities worldwide, are unreliable."
https://www.hku.hk/press/news_detail_19547.html
2 questions:
1. In what way(s) do the hyphens cause the problems?
2. what specific problems are the hyphens causing?
The answer is in
“Metamorphic Robustness Testing: Exposing Hidden Defects in Citation Statistics and Journal Impact Factors” by Zhi Quan Zhou, T.H. Tse, and Matt Witheridge, recently published in IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, the top journal in the field.
I just presented news about it as a QUESTION.
Beyond the hyphens, in our day any evaluation process is inadequate.
It is said that there are more than 15 million researchers at RG. I am shocked to see that only two persons have responded to a note on a topic that concerns researchers worldwide. If you answer only questions like "do you believe in true?" and all that jazz, it is a sad comment on RG. I feel the very structuring of this website is faulty. Sorry, Ijad Madisch.
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