Responsible use of publication metrics to support knowledge management in universities. Bibliometrics, or publication metrics, is a field that studies research and science using scholarly publications ...

Bibliometrics has a problem. In fact, the field — which tracks scholarly impact in everything from journal papers to citations, data sets and tweets — has a lot of problems. Its indicators need better ...

Forcing research to fit the mould of high-impact journals weakens it. Hiring decisions should be based on merit, not impact factor, says Reinhard Werner. How do we recognize a good scientist? There is ...