2025-12-04 21:05 UTC
@johncarlosbaez@mathstodon.xyz who is still using impact factors anyway ? But not prividing access to WoS, for some disciplines this will be a big problem . At least in my case, OpenAlex is still far away from giving an as complete access to available literature as WoS. Doing a thorough literature search will be much more complicated, and largely biased what is available in other databases. And some of the other "free" databases contain so much rubbish, and so little advanced search options, that it is a huge loss of time to screen through literature.
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@johncarlosbaez@mathstodon.xyz 2025-12-04 22:54
@olibrendel@scicomm.xyz - In Europe, Spain and Italy seem to be among the biggest users of impact-factor-like criteria. The Italian national habilitation system (ASN) classifies faculty members according to their academic discipline and relies on journal counts, citations, and h-indices as a basis for promoting tenure track researchers to associate professors and associate to full professors. The qualification is not awarded unless at least two of three bibliometric indices show values above nationally specified thresholds. https://arxiv.org/abs/1505.00115