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How good is research really?
Author(s) -
Bornmann Lutz,
Marx Werner
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
embo reports
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 4.584
H-Index - 184
eISSN - 1469-3178
pISSN - 1469-221X
DOI - 10.1038/embor.2013.9
Subject(s) - bibliometrics , field (mathematics) , quality (philosophy) , data science , computer science , political science , library science , epistemology , philosophy , mathematics , pure mathematics
Bibliometrics increasingly determine the allocation of jobs and funding in science. Bibliometricians must therefore develop and adopt reliable measures of quality that truly reflect a scientist's contribution to his or her field.