Science Literacy

Internal code: 1.1b

General description
 * Sintubin, M. "Doing science is questioning hypotheses, models, etc. It is not questioning science! Trusting science is what a modern society should indeed do, trusting the scientific method!"
 * (McIntyre, L. (2018)) “There is no such thing as liberal science or conservative science. When we ask an empirical question, what should count most is the evidence.”

Interventions

Impact measurements
 * Impact factor
 * - (Heathers, J., Grimes, D. (nd) ) "The impact factor is a popular but highly flawed proxy for the importance of academic journals."
 * - Overview of impact factor manipulation articles


 * H-index
 * - (Waltman, L., van Eck, N. (2021) ) "The h-index is a popular bibliometric indicator for assessing individual scientists. We criticize the h-index from a theoretical point of view."

Assumptions
 * Jay van Bavel on "the death of expertise" (podcast)

Recommendations

Science literacy projects