Article-level metrics would provide more recognition to most researchers than journal-level metrics

Are authors fairly judged by assessment of the prestige of the journals in which their work is published? This study compares article level metrics with journal level metrics, finding that the vast majority of influential papers are published in lower tier journals, and that more authors, regardless of demographics, would be better recognized with article level data.

 

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Article title: Most researchers would receive more recognition if assessed by article-level metrics than by journal-level metrics

Author countries: United States

Funding: Support for this work was provided by the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research and Graduate Education at the University of Wisconsin–Madison to BIH (https://www.wisc.edu) with funding from the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation to BIH (https://www.warf.org/) and the Department of Defense (W911NF2210294 to BIH, https://www.war.gov). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.

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