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For better or worse, “publish or perish” has become a driving ethos in academic research. Search committees, tenure committees, and administrators evaluate researchers on both quantity and quality of papers they publish. However, proliferation of journals has led to numerous possible publication outlets, even in relatively narrow subdisciplines, so those evaluating researchers often rely on metrics of journal quality as a proxy for quality of research. Because Impact Factor (IF; Thompson Scientific) purportedly distills a complicated and nuanced judgment into a simple number, it has become the most widely used metric for this purpose (Seglen 1997). In theory, IF should relate to quality of research a journal publishes (Saha et al. 2003), but this assumption has been strongly questioned (Alberts 2013, Eyre-Walker and Stoletzki 2013). This suggests aspects other than scientific quality are important in determining the journal in which a paper is ultimately published. |
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