Academy of Sciences has joined the San Francisco Declaration

At the Annual Meeting of The American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB) in San Francisco on 16 December 2012, a group of editors and publishers of scientific journals elaborated a collection of eighteen recommendations which should increase the quality of research assessment. Inter alia, they point out the fact that the Journal Impact Factor, which serves today as the primary parameter for the comparison of scientific outputs, was originally created as a tool to help librarians identify journals to purchase, not as a measure of the scientific quality of research in an article. The group agreed that the Journal Impact Factor, which has literally become an ‘obsession’ in global science, in fact deforms the assessment of scientific results. At the stimulus of its Scientific Council, the Academy of Sciences of the CR has joined the San Francisco Declaration of Research Assessment as one of the 78 original signatory scientific and research institutions and international scientific societies. You can find its full text here.