Comments on: What makes a journal valuable? http://library.duke.edu/blogs/scholcomm/2007/11/28/journal-value/ Duke's source for advice and information about copyright and publication issues Tue, 17 Nov 2009 04:32:11 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Scholarly Communications @ Duke » Bad impact? http://library.duke.edu/blogs/scholcomm/2007/11/28/journal-value/comment-page-1/#comment-23251 Scholarly Communications @ Duke » Bad impact? Fri, 21 Dec 2007 18:30:23 +0000 http://library.duke.edu/blogs/scholcomm/2007/11/28/journal-value/#comment-23251 [...] I have discussed before, impact factors are tremendously important in the process of evaluating the quality of scholarship [...] [...] I have discussed before, impact factors are tremendously important in the process of evaluating the quality of scholarship [...]

]]> By: aisha http://library.duke.edu/blogs/scholcomm/2007/11/28/journal-value/comment-page-1/#comment-15351 aisha Thu, 29 Nov 2007 14:34:15 +0000 http://library.duke.edu/blogs/scholcomm/2007/11/28/journal-value/#comment-15351 "I know of no metric that can yet account for the variety of informal publications and their relative influence." It would interesting to conduct a study of recent (the past 3 years) dissertations / theses to see if informal sources are beginning to be cited. Anecdotally, I have notice an increase in citation style questions coming from undergraduates who want to cite blogs, emails and wikis in their research papers. But of course this only occurs when the professor allows these sources to be used. “I know of no metric that can yet account for the variety of informal
publications and their relative influence.”

It would interesting to conduct a study of recent (the past 3 years) dissertations / theses to see if informal sources are beginning to be cited. Anecdotally, I have notice an increase in citation style questions coming from undergraduates who want to cite blogs, emails and wikis in their research papers. But of course this only occurs when the professor allows these sources to be used.

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