Hi all,
I read this again and again and even some of my (former) doctoral student colleagues use it. However, the very little number of persons I had a chance to ask about it obviously did not understand this values by themselves - they just are happy having something more they can use for self-dissemination. So, I ask you all: The impact factor of a single publication, what is this? How is it calculated, when is it calculated and who determines it?
I am well aware of the existence and use /abuse of ranking systems for media, i.e. conference proceedings and particularly, journals. Here, of course an impact factor is used (no need to explain such) in order to show which value a certain media has within a specific community.
But when I look at the impact factor, calculated, e.g., here in ResearchGate (see attachment - also used elsewhere) related to specific publications I additionally recognized something weird: People (and also used this way in the ResearcgGate-System) some-up the various different impact factors from their publications, and claim the sum being ones individual impact factor? Does this have any relevance in the scientific wold (I saw this very first about 2 months ago)? What does a sum of impact factors mean? What makes 500 publications with an impact factor of 0.5 better than a single one with an impact factor of lets say 50 (not sure if there is an upper limit ... I never saw a journal with an impact factor of 6.+ but it seems there are single publications with such one; see attachment, copied from ResearchGate).
As you may realize ... as for me, what I wrote here somehow sounds unstructured and crazy - but this just shows that I completely do not understand what this particular personal impact factor is about. Can someone please explain this to me? I hate the idea missing maybe relevant knowledge ...
Thank you in advance,
yours,
Thomas
I think yes, they sum-up the impact factors for the journal of each paper. But this is not a good measure.
I think a much better measure is to use the number of citations of your papers/the number of your published papers.
I think yes, they sum-up the impact factors for the journal of each paper. But this is not a good measure.
I think a much better measure is to use the number of citations of your papers/the number of your published papers.
This is crazy at all, given the common practice in medicine publications where up too 100 authors "co-write" a single paper. In fact, a single person writes, declares 99 others as co-authors and all of these do the same, too. This means that this calculated individual impact factor, in many cases, cannot show more than how large ones network is.
By the way, this practice of co-authoring eventually led to the foundation of the committee for publication ethics COPE (http://publicationethics.org), which clearly defines when someone should be considered to be declared as a co-author. However, this hardly influenced the herein criticized practice of many supervisors, e.g., insisting that thy generally are listed as co-authors (luckily, I did not have this "problem" during my dissertation times).
i think if the idea of the research (the solution) came from the supervisor, and worked with his/her student until the job is done and written correctly, then the supervisor has the right to co-author the work.
i think personal impact factor needs to be changed, RG score is an attempt to overcome such limitation, but it depends on social network, those how vote for you and you vote for them, however you need to spend some time to promote your work.
Off topic ...
By the way, Ahmad (I somehow cannot write directly),
as I have recognized that you seem being interested in the Learning Culture survey. If you like, we could implementn the Learning Culture Survey in your university. I just would need a translation to the national language (which takes about 6 hours) and afterwards would implement it in the Online survey system. For the translation, quite often, bi-lingual phd-students were selected and assigned from the already supporting institutions. What ypou would need to do is inviting your students for participation (it would be best if the whole student population could internally be addressed since the experience shows that the respose-rate is between 2-5% and a higher number of participants from different faculties allow distinguished conclusions on faculty cultures).
In return, I would, of course, give you the results (including evaluation) and/or present them in your institution, e.g., in form of a guest lecture (given that the expenses for travel and accomodation are covered).
All my best,
Thomas
if it is only an online survey, I will make sure that at least 200 of my students will participate, for the travel expenses it is difficult to arrange as my university is some how has a poor budget, accommodation and food is guaranteed in my home, I have a big house.
To find out how much impact a particular article or author has had, by showing which other authors cited the work within their own papers. The H-Index is one specific method utilizing citation analysis to determine an individuals impact.
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