Use of the journal impact factor as a criterion for the selection of junior researchers: A rejoinder on a comment by Peters (2017)

Journal of Informetrics

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2017, Pages 945-947

  Bornmann, Lutz ^a   Williams, Richard ^b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 85028532314     PISSN: 17511577     EISSN: 18755879     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.joi.2017.08.005     Document Type: Letter

References (12)

1. Auspurg, K., Diekmann, A., Hinz, T., Näf, M., The research rating of the german council of science and humanities: Revisiting reviewers' scores of sociological research units. Soziale Welt-Zeitschrift Fur Sozialwissenschaftliche Forschung Und Praxis, 66(2), 2015 [177-+].
2. Bornmann, L., Williams, R., Can the journal impact factor be used as a criterion for the selection of junior researchers? A large-scale empirical study based on ResearcherID data. Journal of Informetrics 11:3 (2017), 788–799, 10.1016/j.joi.2017.06.001.
3. Bornmann, L., Marx, W., Gasparyan, A.Y., Kitas, G.D., Diversity, value and limitations of the journal impact factor and alternative metrics. Rheumatology International 32:7 (2012), 1861–1867, 10.1007/s00296-011-2276-1.
4. Fraley, R.C., Vazire, S., The N-Pact factor: Evaluating the quality of empirical journals with respect to sample size and statistical power. Public Library of Science, 9(10), 2014, 10.1371/journal.pone.0109019.
5. Gould, R.V., The origins of status hierarchies: A formal theory and empirical test. American Journal of Sociology 107:5 (2002), 1143–1178, 10.1086/341744.
6. Gregg, A., For future doctors. 1957, University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL, USA.
7. Hicks, D., Wouters, P., Waltman, L., de Rijcke, S., Rafols, I., Bibliometrics: The leiden manifesto for research metrics. Nature 520:7548 (2015), 429–431.
8. Hug, S.E., Ochsner, M., Daniel, H.-D., A framework to explore and develop criteria for assessing research quality in the humanities. International Journal for Education Law and Policy 10:1 (2014), 55–64.
9. Leydesdorff, L., Wouters, P., Bornmann, L., Professional and citizen bibliometrics: Complementarities and ambivalences in the development and use of indicators—A state-of-the-art report. Scientometrics 109:3 (2016), 2129–2150, 10.1007/s11192-016-2150-8.
10. Martin, B.R., Irvine, J., Assessing basic research – Some partial indicators of scientific progress in radio astronomy. Research Policy 12:2 (1983), 61–90.
11. Merton, R.K., The Matthew effect in science, II: Cumulative advantage and the symbolism of intellectual property. Isis 79:4 (1988), 606–623.
12. Peters, G.-J.Y., Why not to use the journal impact factor as a criterion for the selection of junior researchers: A comment on Bornmann & Williams (2017). Journal of Informetrics, 2017 (in press).