With the vast majority of scientific papers now available online, Lokman I Meho describes how the Web is allowing physicists and information providers to measure more accurately the impact of these ...

Although the impact of a published study can be measured many ways, the most common tactic has been to tally how often, over the years, others cite the study in their published works. A small industry ...

Impact factor divided by the total number of authors, summed over all publications from 2009 onwards. Impact factor is 5-year impact factor from the Web of Science (WOS). Article Influence Score x ...

To scientists, citations are currency. No, you can’t use them to put gas in your car or food on your table. But surviving in academia means publishing papers people want to read and, more to the point ...

The prominent academic journal Chemosphere is the latest title to lose its impact factor—a metric often controversially used to evaluate researchers and their work—after retracting a series of papers ...

The discovery of high-temperature superconductors, the determination of DNA’s double-helix structure, the first observations that the expansion of the Universe is accelerating — all of these ...

Computer scientist Yoshua Bengio, a professor at the University of Montreal in Canada and one of the pioneers of deep learning—a core learning method in artificial intelligence (AI)—has surpassed 1 ...

Columbia bills itself as a major research university, and one such measurement of this label is the number of paper citations its researchers can claim. As of 2020, Columbia had 45 scientists and ...