<p>Rethinking Impact Factors: New Pathways in Journal Metrics</p>

Cassidy Sugimoto; Liz Allen; Bosman Jeroen; Tindaro Cicero; Stephen Curry; Sarah de Rijcke; Annette Flanagin; Michele Garfinkel; Michael Hill; Vincent Larivière; Jennifer Lin; Marco Malgarini; Ben Martin; Marie McVeigh; Alexis-Michel Mugabushaka; Dakota Murray; Renato H.L.  Pedrosa; Andrew Plume; James Pringle; Bernd Pulverer; Martijn Roelandse; Fei Shu; James Walker; Ludo Waltman; Paul Wouters

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Sugimoto C, Allen L, Jeroen B et al. Rethinking Impact Factors: New Pathways in Journal Metrics [version 1; not peer reviewed]. F1000Research 2019, 8:671 (document) (https://doi.org/10.7490/f1000research.1116751.1)

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Rethinking Impact Factors: New Pathways in Journal Metrics

Cassidy Sugimoto¹, Liz Allen², Bosman Jeroen³, Tindaro Cicero⁴, Stephen Curry⁵, Sarah de Rijcke⁶, Annette Flanagin⁷, Michele Garfinkel⁸, Michael Hill⁹, Vincent Larivière¹⁰, Jennifer Lin¹¹, Marco Malgarini⁴, Ben Martin¹², Marie McVeigh¹³, Alexis-Michel Mugabushaka¹⁴, Dakota Murray¹, Renato H.L. Pedrosa¹⁵, Andrew Plume¹⁶, James Pringle¹³, Bernd Pulverer⁸, Martijn Roelandse¹⁷, Fei Shu¹⁸, James Walker¹⁹, Ludo Waltman⁶, Paul Wouters⁶

Published 16 May 2019 (https://doi.org/10.7490/f1000research.1116751.1)

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¹ Indiana University Bloomington, Bloomington, IN, USA
² F1000, London, UK
³ Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands
⁴ ANVUR-Agenzia Nazionale di Valutazione del Sistema Universitario e della Ricerca, Rome, Italy
⁵ Imperial College London, London, UK
⁶ CWTS-Centre for Science and Technology Studies, Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands
⁷ JAMA Network, Chicago, Illinois, USA
⁸ EMBO, Heidelberg, Germany
⁹ SNSF-Swiss National Science Foundation, Bern, Switzerland
¹⁰ l'Université de Montréal, Montreal, Canada
¹¹ Crossref, Lynnfield, MA, USA
¹² University of Sussex, SPRU - Science Policy Research Unit, Brighton, UK
¹³ Clarivate Analytics, Philadelphia, PA, USA
¹⁴ European Research Council, Brussels, Belgium
¹⁵ FAPESP-Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo and Department of Science and Technology Policy, Geosciences Institute, University of Campinas, Brazil, São Paulo, Brazil
¹⁶ Elsevier, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
¹⁷ Springer Nature, Basingstoke, UK
¹⁸ Hangzhou Dianzi University, Hangzhou, China
¹⁹ Henley Business School, University of Reading, and Association of Business Schools, Reading, UK

Copyright © 2019 Sugimoto C et al. This is an open access work distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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Rethinking Impact Factors: New Pathways in Journal Metrics
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This workshop on which this report is based was jointly hosted by the Lorentz Center, the Centre for Science and Technology Studies at Leiden University (CWTS), and Clarivate Analytics. Individuals from several other for-profit and non-profit organizations participated in the workshop and are represented in the author list.

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indicators, Journal Impact Factor, responsible metrics

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Policy document Rethinking Impact Factors: New Pathways in Journal Metrics [version 1; not peer reviewed]

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Rethinking Impact Factors: New Pathways in Journal Metrics
[version 1; not peer reviewed]