A Critique of the use of Journal Impact Factor (JIF) for Academic Assessment in the Humanities’ Discipline
| dc.contributor.author | Fyanka, Bernard | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2022-01-31T11:46:09Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2022-01-31T11:46:09Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2019 | |
| dc.description.abstract | A key problem with borrowed methodology lies in the ap plication and relevance to contextual or ‘niche’ circumstances of the discipline in question. The use of journal impact factor (JIF) as a metric for evaluating researchers in the humanities for promotion is a borrowed methodology that has impacted negatively on the development of the Humanities as a disci plinary niche. This paper examines the origins of JIF as a bibliometric method and its evolution into mainstream aca demic use for evaluation of researchers. The attendant ret rogressive effects of its use ranging from disciplinary and language bias are interrogated alongside its integrity as an objective metric. Shortfalls in citation windows; restrictions to indexed journals and the malpractices of journal editors is highlighted. Most importantly the impact factor was cre ated to measure journals impact, not individual researchers impact. The Redeemer’s University promotion guide is analyzed as a case study demonstrating the bias against the humanities whenever this metric is implemented in promo tional assessment. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.issn | 2636-6436 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://dspace.run.edu.ng:8080/jspui/handle/123456789/923 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.publisher | Department of History, Kaduna State University, Kaduna | en_US |
| dc.relation.ispartofseries | Kaduna Journal of Humanities,;Volume 3 Number 1, 2019 | |
| dc.subject | Impact Factor | en_US |
| dc.title | A Critique of the use of Journal Impact Factor (JIF) for Academic Assessment in the Humanities’ Discipline | en_US |
| dc.type | Article | en_US |