Podcast For Progress

Who gets positions and funding in academia should depend on the merit of the researcher, project, or institute. But how do we assess these merits fairly, meaningfully and in a way that makes it comparable? I talked about metrics with Steffen Lemke, PhD student at the Leibniz Information Centre for Economics (ZBW), in Kiel, Germany. He is part of the *metrics project, which investigates new research metrics and their applicability. The project is funded by the German Researcher Association, DFG. Listen to the Full Conversation on Patreon! Citation Based Metrics In episode 9 I talked with Björn Brembs about the most prevalent metric used: the Journal Impact Factor. It turns out that the “JIF” is not a good metric. Another commonly used metric is the “H-index”. Like JIF it is based on citations - the number of times a scientific paper was mentioned in another scientific paper. But it aims to measure the output of a researcher rather than the journal. Both, H-index and JIF, have their own