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research metrics
10 posts tagged research-metrics.
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Is the paper you're reading even real?
A November 2025 Royal Society Open Science Perspective, the Stockholm Declaration, argues fake and low-quality science is now produced at industrial scale, with hundreds of thousands of paper-mill articles a year.
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Is the 'world's top 2% scientists' list measuring merit or geography?
A 2025 Journal of Informetrics study of Stanford's 'World's Top 2% Scientists' list in legal studies finds it tracks a US postal code about as closely as it tracks merit.
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The man who studied delayed recognition, and then suffered it
Eugene Garfield coined 'delayed recognition' for papers the world ignores for years. A 2025 preprint shows his own paper on it sat almost uncited for 28 years.
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Is your hot streak also your most disruptive streak?
A 2025 study of 21,271 economists finds papers published during a researcher's hot streak are also more disruptive, and the boldest work tends to arrive years before the most-cited work.
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Small teams disrupt? Maybe it was never about size
A new arXiv preprint argues that collaboration synergy, not team size, drives disruptive science, revisiting the well-known 'small teams disrupt, large teams develop' finding.
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Is science really running out of disruption?
A 2026 Research Policy paper argues the famous 'science is becoming less disruptive' finding measures the wrong thing, especially in the social sciences.
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Best Platforms to Track Research Impact
Compare the best platforms to track research impact, from traditional citation trackers to real-time altmetric engines and proactive distribution systems.
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How Researchers Can Increase h-index Faster
Learn how to increase your h-index faster using a targeted distribution strategy that focuses directly on your publication tipping points.
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Altmetrics vs Citations: What Matters More?
Altmetrics vs citations: what each one measures, how skewed altmetric attention really is by field, how funders read it, and how to optimize for both.
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Where is my $400,000?
Barabási's The Formula prices a citation at about $100,000. That number is an average over a power-law distribution, so most citations are worth far less and a few are worth fortunes. What your next citation is worth depends on where you sit.