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Introducing the Cake-factor | Times Higher Education

Introducing the Cake-factor | Times Higher Education | Science ouverte | Scoop.it

After many years of experience working in the higher education sector, we have become very familiar with the array of research assessment tools. Impact factors, h-index and Eigenfactor all play an important role in the production of global excellence. But it has come to our attention that something is still missing from the toolbox.

Important as the existing tools are, they have one shortcoming: they are individualistic. They do not contribute to academic communities. Hence, we introduce the C-factor.

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