Scientific competition, impact factor, and Altmetrics

Scientific competition, impact factor, and Altmetrics

Heartbeat: Altmetrics and Cardiovascular Risk Factor Studies.

The main guiding editorial principle of Heart is to improve the care of patients with cardiovascular disease by publishing high-impact innovative clinically relevant original cardiovascular research. However, it can be difficult to specify exactly what defines “high-impact”. In addition to the traditional Impact Factor ( Journal Citation Reports, Thomson Reuters, 2015) used for medical journals...

Scholarly Tweets: Measuring Research Impact via Altmetrics

Last spring a faculty member asked me to find their h-index, collect the Impact Factor (IF) for all the journals in which they were published, and compile the number of citations each of their articles had received. When I presented the results, they insisted their work was more influential than what the metrics suggested. I explained why IFs for specialized journals were lower than more genera...

Altmetrics: Broadening Impact or Amplifying Voices?

A large portion of research investment across the globe is generated from public funds, and there is thus considerable effort aimed at demonstrating to the public the impact of their investment. Broader impacts, however, are not easily measured. Efforts have been made to use translation, application, and technology transfer as evidence of broader impact. Open access publishingsuch as practiced...

The Impact Factor and Scientific Journals

Thanks to you, our readership, our combined Global Spine Journal/Evidence-Based Spine-Care Journal has enjoyed substantial popularity in terms of submissions. In response to this demand, the AOSpine International Board has given us permission to increase our number of annual issues from 6 to 8. This increase in annual issues has come with a number of stipulations, of which one of the leading on...