Retrovirology

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The importance of individualized article-specific metrics for evaluating research productivity

Kuan-Teh Jeang

Author Affiliations

National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA

Retrovirology 2009, 6:82 doi:10.1186/1742-4690-6-82

Published: 16 September 2009

Abstract

This editorial discusses the rationale for using article-specific rather than journal-specific metrics for evaluating highly published authors.