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<p class="MsoNormal">I would like to point out that research
metrics including
impact factors are not simply objective measuring devices. They
are highly
political and ideological. They are an attempt to turn research
activity into
some kind of product that can be measured and managed by
administrators who in
many cases know little about research (at least the research in
question).</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Most of us would agree that research can only
be evaluated
effectively by knowledgeable academic peers. However, it is not
in the
interests of academic administrators to have research value
assessed by such
knowledgeable persons as research group leaders or unit heads,
because then these
roles become a barrier to managerial control over the means of
academic
production. Hence, the reification of metrics as a substitute
for judgement.<br>
</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Cheers Johno<br>
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<pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">Dr Robert B. Johnston
Mail: 81 Hunter St. Richmond, VIC, Australia. 3121
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Skype: johno.home</pre>
On 23/09/2013 7:37 AM, Michael Cuellar wrote:<br>
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John and Leon:
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<div>Impact factors definitely have their problems. Mike Gallivan
has made an incisive criticism of them:</div>
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<div style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 36px; text-indent: -36px;
font-size: 12px; ">Gallivan, M. J. (2009). <span
style="text-decoration: underline">Unpacking the Journal
"Impact Factor" and Its Effect on IS Research: Does it Do
More Harm than Good?"</span>. Proceedings of the America's
Conference on Information Systems, San Francisco, CA,
Association for Information Systems.</div>
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<div>The whole current system of evaluating research by
publication in ranked journals has been recognized as having
issues. At the last ICIS, at the senior scholars forum the
senior scholars seemed to decry the evaluation of research by
publication in ranked journals. Additionally, Varun Grover and
Kalle Lyytinen at the SIG Philosophy workshop last year,
decried the "script" by which we produce research. This
script, reinforced by our journals, is very good at producing
our current research but cuts out creative investigation of
new theories without data or exploration of data without
theories. </div>
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<div>A better way might be evaluation of the scholar's Hirsch
statistics. These metrics consider both productivity and
influence and are less subject to manipulation than impact
factors. Different varieties all you to control for such
things as recency, number of publications, number of
coauthors, a "megabit" articles. </div>
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<div>Best regards,</div>
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<div>Mike Cuellar</div>
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<div>On Sep 22, 2013, at 2:16 PM, John Artz <<a
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This is an important point. My research is original and
way out of the mainstream. Hence impact factors do not
serve me well. I was complaining to one of our Deans a
few years ago the use of impact factors. His response
was something along the lines of "How can I evaluate
your research if I don't look at impact factors?" My
response to that was "If you don't understand my
research, you really shouldn't be trying to evaluate
it." I got one of those looks that I always get when I
point out the follies of academia.<br>
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ms', sans-serif; font-size: small; ">Regards,<br>
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John<br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Sep 22, 2013 at 1:22 PM,
Kappelman, Leon <span dir="ltr"><<a
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href="mailto:Leon.Kappelman@unt.edu" target="_blank">Leon.Kappelman@unt.edu</a>></span>
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<p>Some of our institutions have adopted or are
considering the use of impact factors as a
metric for faculty performance. Certainly our
current faculty performance measures are less
than perfect so it seems to be a suggestion
worthy of consideration. But impact factors are
not without controversy and apparently prone to
manipulation and questionable behaviors. So
before embracing impact factors, consider that
at least to some extent they are a measure of
what some might call “incestuous citation
behaviors.” Not surprising since most all of us
understand that when it comes to human behavior,
you get what you measure. The big question is:
Do the positives of using impact factors, or any
other metric or combination of measure for that
matter, sufficiently outweigh the negatives? </p>
<p> </p>
<p>Here is some of the “food for thought” that
raised my eyebrows enough to send this note:</p>
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<p style="margin-left:.5in"><a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.nature.com/news/brazilian-citation-scheme-outed-1.13604"
target="_blank">http://www.nature.com/news/brazilian-citation-scheme-outed-1.13604</a></p>
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<p style="margin-left:.5in"><a
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href="http://occamstypewriter.org/scurry/2012/08/13/sick-of-impact-factors/"
target="_blank">http://occamstypewriter.org/scurry/2012/08/13/sick-of-impact-factors/</a></p>
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<p style="margin-left:.5in"><a
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href="http://retractionwatch.wordpress.com/2013/08/30/journal-retracts-two-papers-after-being-caught-manipulating-citations/"
target="_blank">http://retractionwatch.wordpress.com/2013/08/30/journal-retracts-two-papers-after-being-caught-manipulating-citations/</a></p>
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<p style="margin-left:.5in"><a
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href="http://www.naturalnews.com/042152_citation_stacking_scientific_journals_dishonesty.html"
target="_blank"><span
style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:none">http://www.naturalnews.com/042152_citation_stacking_scientific_journals_dishonesty.html</span></a></p>
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style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">Best
wishes,<br>
Leon Kappelman</span></p>
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style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">“Only
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A. Kappelman, Ph.D.
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Professor of Information Systems <br>
Director Emeritus, Information Systems
Research Center<br>
Fellow, Texas Center for Digital Knowledge<br>
College of Business, University of North
Texas<br>
Voice: <a moz-do-not-send="true"
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Founding Chair, Society for Information
Management's Enterprise Architecture Working
Group<br>
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