I think you'll find that while this 'data' seems to have some relationship to reputation, in the end, that is quite questionable if you compare that data to people's relative reputations, only in some fields that have been focusing on this data for a while, is there any relationship. There has been quite a bit of misunderstanding about what journal rankings and citation counts really mean. i mentioned to Charles at 9.0 that I was going to investigate putting togetther a working group that would 'lay it out' for AoIR as an international and interdisciplinary group in a nice short guide. If others are interested drop me a note On Sat, Jan 3, 2009 at 2:45 AM, Larry Press <lpress@csudh.edu> wrote:
Murray Turoff wrote:
We have too many publishers who are pushing almost a vanity press
So true. How many conferences are thinly disguised tourism? (I admit to having gone to some myself :-).
There might be some relief through inter-operable means of tracking article downloads and citations, which could inform the academic promotion process. For example ACM, Google Scholar, and Berkeley Electronic Press track article downloads and citations, see:
http://cis471.blogspot.com/2009/01/rating-and-reputation-in-scholarly.html
This sort of data could become input to ones scholarly "reputation."
Larry
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