For those who are reviewing...

by Etienne Caron
1 min read May 27, 2015
For those who are reviewing papers, please consider ‘Publon.com’ (http://www.nature.com/news/the-scientists-who-get-credit-for-peer-review-1.16102). I think it is a nice initiative. We might see the r(review)-index soon…

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Christoph Haug
May 27, 2015

Interesting. Thanks for posting this. I'm not sure whether yet another metric is to the benefit of scholars. If this becomes a standard, it just means more work in less time for us. Don't get me wrong. I'm not against metrics per se. But the current obsession with metrics serves primarily one purpose: to allow administrators who have no clue about our respective fields of research to exercise increasing control over our work (which they could not do to the same extent of they did not have metricsto judge our work).

As an alternative, I'd suggest looking at the potentials of the slow scholarship movement (I just learned about it today).

Cheers,

Christoph