Cover -- Half-title -- Series-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Introduction: the dissociation of ethics from practice -- The typical ethics management process and its limitations -- Motivation: fear of penalty and ethical risk -- Formulation...

This paper examines the practical usefulness of two new journal performance metrics, namely the Eigenfactor score, which is said to measure “importance”, and Article Influence score, which is said to measure “prestige”, using the most recent ISI data for 2009 for the 200 most highly...