@johncarlosbaez@mathstodon.xyz
2025-12-04 22:54 UTC
@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
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@rastinza@qoto.org 2026-01-09 14:23
@johncarlosbaez@mathstodon.xyz @olibrendel@scicomm.xyz I can confirm, in Spain impact factor is very much evaluated when assigning grants / PhDs / evaluating your scientific production. OpenAlex, while very cool is still far from complete. I'd like to see Scholia detach a bit from wikidata so that it could be used for that purpose more extensively. Nothing wrong with OpenAlex, but I found plenty of errors in their database and they don't provide a way to notify the error.