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Richard Sever

@richardsever.bsky.social

Any sane academic evaluation policy would forbid mention of Impact Factor

Nikolai Slavov@slavov-n.bsky.social

Comparison of citation metrics. ACS journals (green) and Nature journals (blue). Discuss. 1/

Juan Nunez-Iglesias

@jni.codes

You may be horrified to learn that at Monash until recently (not sure if still true or not) one of the measures was, I shit you not, “Cumulative Impact Factor”, which is the *sum* of the IFs of the journal of each of your papers.

Zen Faulkes

@doctorzen.net

There are over 30 @dorassessment.bsky.social signatories at Monash Don’t know of that’s a critical mass, but maybe enough to start?

Juan Nunez-Iglesias

@jni.codes

I had a few discussions while there, but never at the highest level, which apparently dictates conditions, even to Faculty heads: fosstodon.org/@jni/1114258... Anyway, it is no longer my fight… bsky.app/profile/jni....

fosstodon.orgJuan Nunez-Iglesias (@jni@fosstodon.org)@jonny@neuromatch.social @yetiinabox@todon.nl this hits hard today, we had a town hall on research assessment at Monash Fac. of Med. Highlight was that individual article metrics were inadmissible bec...

Juan Nunez-Iglesias@jni.codes

So… um… I (and Draga Doncila Pop and Eric Perlman and @joshmoore.bsky.social and @kevinyamauchi.bsky.social) started a thing! We are excited and terrified in equal measures, and look forward to working with you all in our amazing scientific imaging community! ❤️‍🔥 Read the linked post for the lowdown.

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Zen Faulkes

@doctorzen.net

Ah, got it. Thanks!