Journal Impact Factors
Journal impact factors are becoming more important in university hiring and promotion. At my university, the impact factors have to be listed on faculty CVs for promotion. At my former university, promotion cases needed to include citation data as part of the package. We came up with set prose to explain why the importance or impact of publications in anthropology or archaeology is not well described in standard sources of citation metrics. There is an explosion of research and publishing ABOUT journal impact factors and citation metrics. I just checked Google-Scholar, and found 135,000 entries for "journal impact factor," with over 7,000 for 2013 alone. Scholars know more and more about how biased and misleading these data are, yet their usage by university administrators keeps growing. Here are the top archaeology journals listed in the ISI Web of Knowledge for 2012: 1.94 -- Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 1.89 -- Journal of Archaeological Science 1.79...