The Scholarly Kitchen

What’s Hot and Cooking In Scholarly Publishing

  • About
  • Archives
  • Collections
    Scholarly Publishing 101 -- The Basics
    Collections
    • Scholarly Publishing 101 -- The Basics
    • Academia
    • Business Models
    • Discovery and Access
    • Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility
    • Economics
    • Libraries
    • Marketing
    • Metrics and Analytics
    • Open Access
    • Organizational Management
    • Peer Review
    • Strategic Planning
    • Technology and Disruption
  • Chefs
  • Podcast
  • Follow

Archives: Eugene Garfield

Happy Anniversary: 50 Years of the Science Citation Index

This week marks the golden anniversary of the Science Citation Index, introduced by Eugene Garfield in 1964.

  • By David Crotty
  • May 16, 2014
  • 6 Comments

Stretching "Impact" By Many "Factors" — Signs of Thrall and Uncertainty?

As new metrics are explored, not everything equates to “impact.” Getting our terms right will help us get our thinking straight.

  • By Kent Anderson
  • Dec 10, 2012
  • 11 Comments

What's the Significance of Citations Predicting the Nobel Prize?

How well do citations predict Nobels? With an ever-expanding roster of eligible candidates, the going is getting tougher.

  • By Kent Anderson
  • Sep 23, 2011
  • 0 Comments

The Impact Factor: A Tool from a Bygone Era?

With scientific information propagating in new ways, is the Impact Factor measuring what it was intended to measure?

  • By Kent Anderson
  • Jun 29, 2009
  • 27 Comments

Official Blog of:

Society for Scholarly Publishing (SSP)

The Chefs

  • Rick Anderson
  • Todd A Carpenter
  • Michael Clarke
  • Angela Cochran
  • Lettie Y. Conrad
  • David Crotty
  • Phil Davis
  • Joseph Esposito
  • Robert Harington
  • Siân Harris
  • Haseeb Irfanullah
  • Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe
  • Phill Jones
  • Scholarly Kitchen
  • Judy Luther
  • Alice Meadows
  • Ann Michael
  • Alison Mudditt
  • Jill O'Neill
  • Charlie Rapple
  • Dianndra Roberts
  • Roger C. Schonfeld
  • David Smith
  • Tao Tao
  • Tim Vines
  • Jasmine Wallace
  • Karin Wulf

Most Recent

  • Still Ambiguous at Best? Revisiting “If We Don’t Know What Citations Mean, What Does it Mean When We Count Them”
  • Guest Post — Has Peer Review Created a Toxic Culture in Academia? Moving from ‘Battering’ to ‘Bettering’ in the Review of Academic Research
  • Keeping Publishing Infrastructure Independent

Recent Tweets

Retweet on Twitter Scholarly Kitchen Retweeted
jeroensh Jeroen van de Weijer 🇺🇦🚜🌻🇺🇦 @jeroensh ·
7h

Still Ambiguous at Best? Revisiting "If We Don’t Know What #Citations Mean, What Does it Mean When We Count Them"

#science #metrics
https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2022/08/17/still-ambiguous-at-best-revisiting-if-we-dont-know-what-citations-mean-what-does-it-mean-when-we-count-them/ via @scholarlykitchn

Retweet on Twitter Scholarly Kitchen Retweeted
justzatch Zach Breneman @justzatch ·
10h

This and the post from @scholarlykitchn are points I think a lot of folks will want to save.

Guest Post -- Has Peer Review Created a Toxic Culture in Academia? Moving from ‘Battering’ to ‘Bettering’ in the Review of Academic Research https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2022/08/16/guest-post-has-peer-review-created-a-toxic-culture-in-academia-moving-from-battering-to-bettering-in-the-review-of-academic-research/ via @scholarlykitchn https://twitter.com/LabSpecEth/status/1560017958641881088

Lab of Spec still masking! @LabSpecEth

@natureB I had a request for a thread on how to best get started and be effective as a peer reviewer. So here are some thoughts.🧵
Retweet on Twitter Scholarly Kitchen Retweeted
kawulf Karin Wulf @kawulf ·
10h

I'd like to think a lot has changed in the last 7 years --how we better understand the nature of citation and the implications of those metrics. But I'm not sure it has. What do you think? Drop a comment on the post... 4//

Follow the Scholarly Kitchen Blog Follow Us
Society for Scholarly Publishing (SSP)

The mission of the Society for Scholarly Publishing (SSP) is to advance scholarly publishing and communication, and the professional development of its members through education, collaboration, and networking. SSP established The Scholarly Kitchen blog in February 2008 to keep SSP members and interested parties aware of new developments in publishing.

The Scholarly Kitchen is a moderated and independent blog. Opinions on The Scholarly Kitchen are those of the authors. They are not necessarily those held by the Society for Scholarly Publishing nor by their respective employers.

  • About
  • Archives
  • Chefs
  • Podcast
  • Follow
  • Advertising
  • Privacy Policy
  • Terms of Use
  • Website Credits
ISSN 2690-8085