Year: 2013
Type: editorial
Abstract: Traditional and alternative metrics: The full story of impactMétricas tradicionais e métricas alternativas: a história completa do impacto For many years, the Journal Impact Factor (JIF) was the best tool available to determine the prestige of a journal.JIF is a metric tool that was originally developed in the 1960s by the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) as a valid metric for journal quality. 1 A group of editors from a number of scholarly journals met in December 2012 to discuss the Impact Factor, and a declaration was born ''the San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment'' (DORA).DORA is a worldwide initiative to improve the way in which the output of scientific research is evaluated by funding agencies, academic institutions and other parties. 2 The declaration includes the following recommendations 3 :
Author: H. Donato
Institution: Unidade Local de Saúde de Coimbra
Language: English
Subfield: Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty
Field: Decision Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W2062229583