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Dora the Brave
Author(s) -
Pulverer Bernd
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
the embo journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 7.484
H-Index - 392
eISSN - 1460-2075
pISSN - 0261-4189
DOI - 10.15252/embj.201570010
Subject(s) - impact factor , notice , citation , declaration , publication , library science , computer science , political science , law
The San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment ( DORA) points out that using the Journal Impact Factor as a proxy measure for the value or quality of specific research and individual scientists leads to biased research assessment. How can we resist misusing metrics?