Tuyển tập các báo cáo nghiên cứu về y học được đăng trên tạp chí y học Retrovirology cung cấp cho các bạn kiến thức về ngành y đề tài: " The importance of individualized article-specific metrics for evaluating research productivity. | Retrovirology BioMed Central Editorial Open Access The importance of individualized article-specific metrics for evaluating research productivity Kuan-Teh Jeang Address National Institutes of Health Bethesda MD USA Email Kuan-Teh Jeang - kj7e@ Received 15 September 2009 Accepted 16 September 2009 Published 16 September 2009 Retrovirology 2009 6 82 doi 1742-4690-6-82 This article is available from http content 6 1 82 2009 Jeang licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http licenses by which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract This editorial discusses the rationale for using article-specific rather than journal-specific metrics for evaluating highly published authors. Editorial Mark Patterson of PLoS Public Library of Science recently wrote an online piece http cms node 478 on how to measure impact where it matters. Patterson makes an important point that one should focus on article specific metrics when evaluating a published paper rather than relying on the name and the impact factor IF of the journal in which the work is published . In the past it was not always easy to assess quickly and accurately the citations to individually published articles. Today many electronic tools . ISI Web of Science Scopus Google Scholar exist that can accomplish this task facilely and reliably. Because there are inherent shortcomings to how a journal s IF is calculated and because of the rather poor representativeness of the IF for the citations to individual articles 1 2 institutions and peerreview bodies should be encouraged strongly to employ article-specific measures in preference to journal IFs in evaluations. Article-specific citations are often not used properly in evaluating published authors. For example in some circles it
