The Journal Impact Factor as a KPI
The journal impact factor is a measure of the frequency with which the average article in a journal has been cited in a particular year. It is used to measure the importance or rank of a journal by calculating the times it's articles are cited.
While originally invented by Eugene Garfield as a tool to help university librarians to decide which journals to purchase, the journal impact factor soon became used as a measure for judging academic success. Since then, the journal impact factor has gained widespread use for evaluation of research, individual scientists, research groups and institutions.
Since P.O. Seglen described already in 1997 “Why the impact factor of journals should not be used for evaluating research” (British Medical Journal, 314(7079), 497), I want to raise the question “What is necessary to conduct high quality research?”, and focus on the processes necessary for submitting a paper to a journal rather than the final output.
?KPIs - Key Performance Indicators
?Teaching
?People
?Machinery & Methods
?Finance
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?Network
?Product
?Exploitation
?Amortization
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Work in Progress
Some may say, “Without the definition of a time period, no KPI listed above makes sense”. I totally agree, but the list above is by far not complete and setting a time period would have added an additional factor of complexity, which at this stage I wanted to avoid. There is also no prioritization at this point. I wanted to share my ideas of KPIs and I would be happy and thankful, if you share your ideas too. So please feel free to make suggestions for important and/ or missing Key Performance Indicators in the comment section or to start a constructive discussion. The results of this Publicly Brain Storming will be shared in another Blog Post.