> Research Quality Framework (RQF)
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> The Academy is inviting feedback to the draft Research Quality
> Framework (RQF) journal lists ranked by expert groups through the
> Academy of Science.
> http://www.science.org.au/rqf.htm
Determining journal quality based on an unfiltered web-based opinion
poll makes almost as little sense as doing it on the basis of polling
preferences for the color of the journal's cover.
A targeted evaluation by qualified peers would make far more sense.
And even then, the journal's rated quality or impact factor (average
citation count) should only be one (or two) in a rich battery of
candidate metrics (including article citation counts, author citation
counts, download counts, co-citations, chronometrics for citations and
downloads, hub/authority indices, endogamy measures, "h-index," funding,
students, and many other candidate metrics), jointly cross-validated
and weighted, in a multiple regression equation, against qualified peer
evaluations or other criteria that are either face-valid or have already
been validated.
Harnad, S. (2007) Open Access Scientometrics and the UK Research
Assessment Exercise. In: Proceedings of 11th Annual Meeting of the
International Society for Scientometrics and Informetrics 11(1), pp.
27-33, Madrid, Spain. Torres-Salinas, D. and Moed, H. F., Eds.
http://eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/13804/
Stevan Harnad
AMERICAN SCIENTIST OPEN ACCESS FORUM:
http://amsci-forum.amsci.org/archives/American-Scientist-Open-Access-Forum.h
tml
http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/
UNIVERSITIES and RESEARCH FUNDERS:
If you have adopted or plan to adopt a policy of providing Open Access
to your own research article output, please describe your policy at:
http://www.eprints.org/signup/sign.php
http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/71-guid.html
http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/136-guid.html
OPEN-ACCESS-PROVISION POLICY:
BOAI-1 ("Green"): Publish your article in a suitable toll-access journal
http://romeo.eprints.org/
OR
BOAI-2 ("Gold"): Publish your article in an open-access journal if/when
a suitable one exists.
http://www.doaj.org/
AND
in BOTH cases self-archive a supplementary version of your article
in your own institutional repository.
http://www.eprints.org/self-faq/
http://archives.eprints.org/
http://openaccess.eprints.org/
> Feedback needs to be made by Friday 23 November 2007 through the
> use of a provided form. http://www.science.org.au/rqf-form.doc
> Please email feedback forms to Ms Fenja Theden
> (fenja.theden -- science.org.au).
>
> Nancy Pritchard
> Manager - International Programs
> Australian Academy of Science
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