[IRTalk] ON TENNANT: THE COST OF KNOWLEDGE - Science: Disrupt

[Hilton Gibson]

The impact factor was originally designed to assess which journals are
being cited most, so that librarians can check which subscriptions are
worth renewing! How it became used to assess individuals and research
articles is through a combination of pressure, overburdened assessment
systems, and laziness, along with having it forced down our throats by
publishers at every turn. There are documents like the Leiden Manifesto,
The Metrics Tide, and the San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment
that all point out problems with the IF, and there are some
interesting potential alternatives, such as a richer suite of article level
metrics.

*"The irony of it being a gold standard is that it is neither golden nor a
standard." *

http://sciencedisrupt.com/posts/2016/5/20/jon-tennant-the-cost-of-knowledge
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