{"id":163,"date":"2017-06-29T16:19:16","date_gmt":"2017-06-29T19:19:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.ifi.unicamp.br\/cdeneke\/?p=163"},"modified":"2017-07-14T10:50:58","modified_gmt":"2017-07-14T13:50:58","slug":"beware-the-impact-factor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.ifi.unicamp.br\/cdeneke\/2017\/06\/29\/beware-the-impact-factor\/","title":{"rendered":"Beware the impact factor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just read an interesting interview in a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spiegel.de\/wissenschaft\/medizin\/nobelpreistraeger-randy-schekman-kritisiert-science-und-nature-a-1154483.html\">German Online magazine&nbsp;<\/a>with Noble prize winner Randy Schekman. He warns to out to much value into the impact factor of magazines like &#8220;Science&#8221; and &#8220;Nature&#8221; &#8211; indeed he claims, they not helping science to progress, but give rise to fashionable and not-solid research.<\/p>\n<p>I agree with him: we have to come up with better systems to evaluate the quality, the importance and relevance of publications and science we do. I just have no idea, what is a better alternative at the current point.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just read an interesting interview in a German Online magazine&nbsp;with Noble prize winner Randy Schekman. He warns to out to much value into the impact factor of magazines like &#8220;Science&#8221; and &#8220;Nature&#8221; &#8211; indeed he claims, they not helping science to progress, but give rise to fashionable and not-solid research. I agree with him: &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.ifi.unicamp.br\/cdeneke\/2017\/06\/29\/beware-the-impact-factor\/\">Continue reading<\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":169,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-optinions","item-wrap"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.ifi.unicamp.br\/cdeneke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.ifi.unicamp.br\/cdeneke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.ifi.unicamp.br\/cdeneke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.ifi.unicamp.br\/cdeneke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/169"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.ifi.unicamp.br\/cdeneke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sites.ifi.unicamp.br\/cdeneke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":172,"href":"https:\/\/sites.ifi.unicamp.br\/cdeneke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163\/revisions\/172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.ifi.unicamp.br\/cdeneke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.ifi.unicamp.br\/cdeneke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.ifi.unicamp.br\/cdeneke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}