Should decisions about your hiring, reappointment, tenure, or promotion use the impact factor score as a proxy indicator of the impact of your scholarship?

MedGenMed Medscape General Medicine

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2006, Pages

  Holden, Gary ^a   Rosenberg, Gary ^b   Barker, Kathleen ^c   Onghena, Patrick ^d  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIBLIOMETRICS; DECISION MAKING; EDITORIAL; EMPLOYMENT; INTERNET; JOB SECURITY; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL LITERATURE; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; SCORING SYSTEM; SOCIAL WORK; VALIDATION PROCESS; CAREER MOBILITY; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; ORGANIZATION; PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT; UNIVERSITY;

BIBLIOMETRICS; CAREER MOBILITY; DECISION MAKING, ORGANIZATIONAL; EMPLOYEE PERFORMANCE APPRAISAL; FACULTY; HUMANS; PERSONNEL SELECTION; UNIVERSITIES;

EID: 33746876011     PISSN: 15310132     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Editorial

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