Citation Metrics and Impact Factors Fail as Measures of Scientific Quality, in Particular in Taxonomy, and are Biased by Biological Discipline and by Geographic and Taxonomic Factors

Tyler, Torbjörn

doi:10.5735/085.055.0123

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“…Studies that include analyses of large datasets (Fox et al 2016), or international or multi‐disciplinary collaborations are also cited more often (Leimu and Koricheva 2005 a , b ). In addition, study species (Rosenthal et al 2017), study location, and the type of article (e.g., focal system) can influence citation frequency (Tyler 2018). In a study investigating taxonomic citation bias, for example, chordate studies received more citations than arthropod studies (Rosenthal et al 2017).…”

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Getting cited early: influence of visibility strategies, structure, and focal system on early citation rates

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Elucidating factors that contribute to citation rates of scientific articles can help scientists write manuscripts that have a stronger influence on their scientific field and are accessible to a broad audience. Using a cohort of 778 articles published in The Journal of Wildlife Management from 2011–2015, we examined how visibility strategies, article structure, and focal system (all factors authors can predominantly control) influenced the accumulation of citations over various time frames within the first 5 years after publication, and the number of days until an article received its first citation. Visibility strategies (e.g., open access, increasing the Altmetric Attention Score, and self‐citations) all influenced the number of citations accrued following publication. Citations were more stochastic 1 year following publication compared to 5 years following publication, with only 20.1% of papers receiving a citation after 1 year compared to 92.5% of papers receiving a citation after 5 years. Our model explained much more of the variation after 5 years compared to after only 1 year (R2 = 0.57 and 0.12, respectively). The number of factors significantly associated with citation rates increased as the timeframe of our analysis increased. After 5 years, factors associated with article structure (e.g., number of references), focal system (e.g., methods papers), and visibility all increased citation counts of papers. Our work suggests citation rates within wildlife ecology are influenced by a number of controllable factors, and that authors pursuing a variety of visibility strategies can increase the influence of an article on science and management.

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“…In the age of the UK Research Excellence Framework, and the focus on ‘impact' as a measure of scientific quality, there is the potential for significant barriers to progression for university‐based ecologists, especially as ecological research is typically long‐term in comparison to other STEM disciplines; for example, at least a decade of consistent monitoring is needed to capture statistically significant trends in vertebrate populations (White 2018) and a resulting impact case would take even longer to develop. Exercises such as the Research Excellence Framework are highly metric‐driven, yet for ecology and its sub‐disciplines metrics can be poor predictors of scientific quality (Tyler 2018). There is a risk that metric‐induced barriers to progression will be further compounded by the UK Teaching Excellence Framework (Whalley 2019) given the additional burden on teachers, and the potential conflict between teaching and research (Perkins 2019).…”

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Teaching and learning in ecology: a horizon scan of emerging challenges and solutions

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“…While scientific citation analysis keeps drawing attention from the science community [1,2,3], much less (if not zero) is paid to simplifying the production of in-text citation itself in the preparation of a scientific manuscript. As geneticist Yaniv Erlich (for whom the pain of managing references is real) tweeted, "We are far closer to a level 5 autonomous vehicle and space tourism than a functional citation manager.…”

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Simplifying the management of scientific reference and citation with a minimalist DOI-BibTex-LaTeX approach

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2018

Clin Microbiol Infect Dis

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Scientific citation is of undisputed importance in the field of scientific research. In the absence of a truly simple and functional tool for scientific reference and citation management, this article puts forward a minimalist DOI-BibTex-LaTeX approach, with which comes two advantages: 1), a scientific reference manager is as simple as one window of the File Explorer on Microsoft Windows®; 2), in the preparation of a scientific manuscript with LaTeX, there is no need to manually create a bibliography file, in-text citation will be as simple as a BibTex command \cite{DOI} without defeating the purpose of scientific citation.

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Citation Metrics and Impact Factors Fail as Measures of Scientific Quality, in Particular in Taxonomy, and are Biased by Biological Discipline and by Geographic and Taxonomic Factors

Cited by 5 publications

References 44 publications

Getting cited early: influence of visibility strategies, structure, and focal system on early citation rates

Getting cited early: influence of visibility strategies, structure, and focal system on early citation rates

Teaching and learning in ecology: a horizon scan of emerging challenges and solutions

Simplifying the management of scientific reference and citation with a minimalist DOI-BibTex-LaTeX approach

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