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Research trends
World research trends
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Data: Thomson Reuters Web of Science
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Data: Thomson Reuters Web of Science
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Data: Thomson Reuters Web of Science
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Impact Factors?
“When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure.”
-Goodhart’s Law
Image : © Ciara McDonnell CC BY
Publish good papers.
Publish papers in good journals.
Publish as many shorter papers as possible in high
impact factor journals regardless of whether or not it’s
the best venue for the research.
Image : © Thomas Anderson CC-BY
Metrics in the networked age
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Do we need filters?
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Science Citation Index Social Science Citation Index
Data: Thomson Reuters Web of Science
Image : © Jason Howie CC-BY
Image : © Randel Monroe CC-BY-NC
Image : © Julien Haler CC-BY
Image: © Carlos José CC BY
Abuse of metrics
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• MAP OF SOUTH AFRICA
the South African context
South African Journals
• Ulrich’s lists 214 journals published from South Africa
• DHET lists 273 accredited journals for 2015.
South African Journals
Based on Ulrich’s data
• 115 are tracked in altmetric.com
• 105 index in Scopus
• 64 Web of Science
• 41 are in no A&I services.
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Data: Live Internet Stats
• Currently tracked news items
