{"id":68546,"date":"2012-04-29T23:50:46","date_gmt":"2012-04-30T07:50:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/?p=16552"},"modified":"2012-04-29T23:50:46","modified_gmt":"2012-04-30T07:50:46","slug":"redefining-impact-factor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/2012\/04\/29\/redefining-impact-factor\/","title":{"rendered":"Redefining \u201cimpact factor\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In rereading the paper on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.plosgenetics.org\/article\/info%3Adoi\/10.1371\/journal.pgen.1002641\">Pygmy height genetics<\/a>, I noticed that <em>PLoS <\/em>had rolled out some nice <a href=\"http:\/\/www.plosgenetics.org\/article\/metrics\/info%3Adoi\/10.1371\/journal.pgen.1002641\">new metrics<\/a>. To my shock this paper, which I think is a moderately big deal, had less than 1,000 views, and only ~150 PDF downloands! This is going to change, but it still shocks me. With all due respect to my statistical geneticist friends, but this isn&#8217;t an abstruse methods paper debuting a new technique!<\/p>\n<p>I decided to check on an older paper which has been rather influential, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.plosbiology.org\/article\/metrics\/info%3Adoi\/10.1371\/journal.pbio.0040072\">A Map of Recent Positive Selection in the Human Genome<\/a>, from 2006. Here are the metrics:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/files\/2012\/04\/mapposselec.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-16553\" title=\"mapposselec\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/files\/2012\/04\/mapposselec.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"549\" height=\"399\" \/><\/a>Good? Bad? What do you think? Did you expect more downloads in the past 6 years?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In rereading the paper on Pygmy height genetics, I noticed that PLoS had rolled out some nice new metrics. To my shock this paper, which I think is a moderately big deal, had less than 1,000 views, and only ~150 PDF downloands! This is going to change,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68546"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68546\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68699,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68546\/revisions\/68699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}