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Altmetric score university
If you can add the altmetrics-information of the universities, it's good.
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AdminBob Edenbach
(Global Head of Online Services, Custom Media & Partnerships, Nature Index)
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Please contact Altmetric directly to suggest improvements to their metrics.
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Should include institutions without any bias.
there are Institutional profiles which are altogether missing as if those have contributed nothing, but is not the case. I think this index needs revisit.
1 votedeclined ·AdminBob Edenbach
(Global Head of Online Services, Custom Media & Partnerships, Nature Index)
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Hello,
Do you have an example of an institution that is missing?
All institutions that have published articles included in the Index dataset are included in the database.Best regards,
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Institution size
Hi! Institution output without regard for size of the institution is actually not too helpful in any way... you may perhaps include an index that adjusts for number of faculty associated with each institution... Similar ideas have been declined without much feedback
1 votedeclined ·AdminBob Edenbach
(Global Head of Online Services, Custom Media & Partnerships, Nature Index)
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The are no plans to add institution size to the Nature Index.
Best regards,
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remove "high-quality research" and "benchmark research performance" from you description of the index.
I found those terms extremely misleading, the Nature-Index tracks the affiliations of publications published in high-regarded journals, but not more.
Is all publications in these journals high-quality research? Or course not. Is all "high-quality research" published in these journals? Or course not.
Thus, how this highly biased index can benchmark global research performance?3 votes -
There should be retraction index too, depending on the number
There should be retraction index too, depending on the number of retracted, fraud, irreproducible papers published by an author or journal. This index should be deducted to for the final "nature index"!
1 votedeclined ·AdminBob Edenbach
(Global Head of Online Services, Custom Media & Partnerships, Nature Index)
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When retractions are published we remove the papers from the Nature Index the following month with our regular update, so they are no longer counted.
Regards,
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take into account the number of faculty members per institution
In addition to your current metrics, normalizing the article count per number of faculty members per institution would allow to highlight very strong, but much smaller, institutions. It is normal that an institution with 7 000 faculty members has more published papers in the index than an institution with 200 faculty members.
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customize date range
allow for date range to be selected by users
1 votedeclined ·AdminBob Edenbach
(Global Head of Online Services, Custom Media & Partnerships, Nature Index)
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Data from the archives is only available through custom datasets & reports.
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check your searching engine
looking at Poland: only 10 Physical Review A in the period listed?? Of course wrong - here come 3 my own papers not found: http://journals.aps.org/pra/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevA.89.033625
http://journals.aps.org/pra/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevA.89.043626
http://journals.aps.org/pra/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevA.90.033621why show statistics which obviosly does not work?
it is even worse with institutions...
3 votesdeclined ·AdminBob Edenbach
(Global Head of Online Services, Custom Media & Partnerships, Nature Index)
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Hello,
Those articles are not included in the Index dataset. I’d suggest checking the FAQ page (http://www.natureindex.com/faq#methodology5), only ‘Highlighted articles’ and ‘Rapid Communications’ from Physical Review A, Physical Review B and Physical Review D are included in the dataset.
What issues did you find with the institutions?
I will take a look at them for you.Thank you for your interest in the Index.
Regards,
Bob
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