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. 2013 May 16:2:e00855.
doi: 10.7554/eLife.00855.

Reforming research assessment

Randy Schekman, Mark Patterson

Reforming research assessment

Randy Schekman et al. Elife. .

Abstract

It is time for the research community to rethink how the outputs of scientific research are evaluated and, as the San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment makes clear, this should involve replacing the journal impact factor with a broad range of more meaningful approaches.

Keywords: eLife; publishing; research assessment; science policy; scientific publishing.

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Conflict of interest statement

Competing interests:RS and MP attended the initial meeting at the ASCB annual meeting in San Francisco that led to the creation of the Declaration on Research Assessment and participated in its drafting.

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