Dora the Brave

Short Description

The San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA) points out that using the Journal Impact Factor as a proxy measure for the value or quality of specific research and individual scientists leads to biased research assessment. How can we resist misusing metrics?

Authors

Bernd Pulverer

Access

Open

Reference

Pulverer, B. (2015). Dora the brave. The EMBO Journal (2015) e201570010

DOI

10.15252/embj.201570010

Link

http://emboj.embopress.org/content/early/2015/06/08/embj.201570010