Sentence examples for journal prestige from inspiring English sources

We know that important administrative assessments such as the UK's Research Excellence Framework (REF) explicitly disclaim the use of impact factors (surrogates for measuring journal prestige) in assessing research.

And for better or worse, journal prestige and impact factor are still important criteria when evaluating early-career scientists.

The LOT Summit's organizers had set out to attract people who already measure impact not by citations or journal prestige but by effect in the wider world.

For those unfamiliar with a journal or trying to place a journal in the pecking order, JIF is sometimes mistaken as a proxy for journal quality, journal prestige, article quality, and author prestige.

Their strength, they say, comes from their journals' prestige, not the number of journals that they own.

A size-independent indicator of journals' scientific prestige, the SCImago Journal Rank (SJR) indicator, is proposed that ranks scholarly journals based on citation weighting schemes and eigenvector centrality.

Actual numbers back that claim: A measurement called the Impact Factor (devised in the 1960s to quantify a journal's prestige by tallying citations of its articles) has landed The New England Journal firmly on top of the pile for years.

The effect of a journal's prestige on readers' impressions of an article is unknown.

On the one hand, editors might be too positive, in a subconscious attempt to protect their own work and the journal's prestige, whereas critics who bother to communicate their concerns might not be typical of the average reader and less likely to be satisfied whatever the replies.

It is this selectivity that gives these journals their prestige.

Finally, to rank the journals by prestige, they used each publication's Impact Factor, the long dominant if increasingly unpopular metric provided by Thomson Reuters.