The academic welfare state: making peer-review count.
The peer-review process is a central pillar of academic publishing. However, the work that goes into ensuring the quality of published content is rarely recognised. Here we present a correction factor for the h-index, one of the most popular metrics for quantifying academic output, that will allow for the inclusion of peer-review effort in the evaluation of the outputs produced by an academic.
Durrell Institute of Conservation and Ecology, School of Anthropology and Conservation, Marlowe Building, University of Kent, Canterbury, Kent, CT2 7NR, UK. Electronic address: dv38@kent.ac.uk.
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D006801:Humans; D009042:Motivation; D010380:Peer Review / Q000379:methods*; D011643:Publishing / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D011786:Quality Control; D012201:Reward; D014838:Volunteers / Q000523:psychology*; D016526:Workload