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Indexed and listed

Those that know me a little bit, should know (by now) that I am (royally) pissed off about the crusade for indexes, performance measurement and determination of the quantitative impact of the research "products". I am fully in favor of working with the industry, but fully against the term products applied to the research outcome. Call me nostalgic, but I like so much the term findings or the mundane results. Without digressing, like it or not, as they say in the very nice movie ...

You have been weighed. You have been measured. And you have absolutely... been found wanting.
(Welcome to the new world)

Check it here! (and you can check the full movie as well --A Knight's Tale)


Pretty much as anyone of us, I am routinely measured (and found wanting) by ...

Google Scholar
Microsoft academic Research
ResearchGate
Scopus

Of course, publishers keep track as well... Springer

Despite all of this, my institution keeps bugging me for these lists every other week. After all, they need to measure me....