Editorial decisions influence research assessment. This article provides 10 concrete recommendations that journals and publishers can take to help improve how research is assessed.
- Cease the promotion of journal impact factors
- Provide article metrics and indicators
- Adopt the CRediT taxonomy for author contributions
- Ensure that all reference data deposited with Crossref is open
- Require authors to make all key data available according to FAIR principles
- Follow the data citation principles
- Encourage the use of unique identifiers (eg RRIDs)
- Require authors to use ORCIDs
- Publish peer review reports and author responses along with the article
- Examine ways to increase diversity, equity, and inclusion in the publishing process
Hatch A and Patterson M (2019). How journals and publishers can help to reform research assessment. https://www.csescienceeditor.org/article/how-journals-and-publishers-can-help-to-reform-research-assessment/