Scientific Journals as Gatekeepers for the Generation and Use of Impact Factors

Friday, 13 February 2015: 3:00 PM-4:30 PM
Room LL20B (San Jose Convention Center)
Bernd Pulverer, European Molecular Biology Organization, Heidelberg, Germany
This talk will focus on the roles that scientific journals may play in propagating and mitigating the mis-use of metrics in research assessments and how they may contribute to the improvement of such measurements.