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That means, for one thing, reducing the emphasis placed on publications in evaluating scientists for hiring, funding, tenure, or promotion.
The h index bibliometric indicator for evaluating scientists and scientific institutions plays an increasingly important role in evaluating contemporary scientific research, including chemistry.
On 19 September, Heather Piwowar of Duke University, an expert in bibliometric factors and credit attribution, and DORA signatory Sandra Schmid of the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center discussed the use of impact factors for evaluating scientists and their research and the possible alternatives, with Science Careers' Michael Price.
Recently, there has been official recognition of the limitations of the IF for evaluating scientists for promotion or funding [ 6- 9].
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Unlike many universities around the country, the NIH specifically evaluates scientists' mentoring skills.
Funding bodies and university promotion committees, among others, use citations to evaluate scientists and the impact of their work.
Based on this, a questionnaire (Additional file 1, Q1) was developed to evaluate scientists' confidence in the current knowledge and their opinions on the different issues relating to phthalates as to their relevance for phthalate toxicity.
The new system may be more cost-efficient, but "the fundamental issue here is really the abandonment of scientists evaluating other scientists in front of other scientists," Woodgett argues.
► A letter in this week's Science responds favorably to Science Editor-in-Chief Marcia McNutt's 5 December proposal, in an editorial, that scientists and administrators devise and utilize better methods for evaluating young scientists than the ones currently in use.
The former, a program to give smart college dropouts money and freedom to tinker and the later, an innovative platform for evaluating data scientists through competition.
Through monitoring and evaluating activities, scientists track algal blooms, rainfall shifts, frog survival, air quality, possible toxins in decomposing trash anything affecting or resulting from an environmental factor.
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