User:Daniel Mietchen/Sandbox/San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment

The San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment is a statement by more than 150 scientists and 75 scholarly societies that was released on May 16, 2013, criticizing the widespread practice of assessing research, researchers and research institutions on the basis of easily calculable metrics ill-suited for these purposes, such as the Journal Impact Factor.

http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2013/05/14/the-apparatus-of-research-assessment-is-driven-by-the-academic-publishing-industry/

NPG did not sign: (Nature Publishing Group, which publishes this blog, has not signed DORA: Nature’s editor-in-chief, Philip Campbell, said that the group’s journals had published many editorials critical of excesses in the use of JIFs, “but the draft statement contained many specific elements, some of which were too sweeping for me or my colleagues to sign up to”.)

Science (AAAS) did

Elsevier/ Wiley/ Springer missing too