When More Really Isn't Better: Aligning Policies and Outcomes in Ecology

摘要

Recently, we and others have called attention to the fact that science policies should be structuredto achieve our overall intellectual and social objectives (Holbrook 2012, Schekman 2013, Andersonet al. 2015). Using this rubric to test a policy’s “theoretical adequacy” (sensu Holbrook 2010), there isa growing consensus regarding the insufficiency of measuring a publication’s (or a scientist’s) qualityby inference from the Impact Factor of the journal where an article is published (see San FranciscoDeclaration on Research Assessment, ASCB 2012).