Post by @rastinza@qoto.org

2026-01-09 14:23 UTC

@johncarlosbaez@mathstodon.xyz @olibrendel@scicomm.xyz I can confirm, in Spain impact factor is very much evaluated when assigning grants / PhDs / evaluating your scientific production. OpenAlex, while very cool is still far from complete. I'd like to see Scholia detach a bit from wikidata so that it could be used for that purpose more extensively. Nothing wrong with OpenAlex, but I found plenty of errors in their database and they don't provide a way to notify the error.

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@johncarlosbaez@mathstodon.xyz 2026-01-09 15:33

@rastinza@qoto.org @olibrendel@scicomm.xyz - I was surprised when I looked myself up on Google and it said John Carlos Baez is an American mathematical physicist and a professor of mathematics at the University of California, Riverside in Riverside, California. He has worked on spin foams in loop quantum gravity, applications of higher categories to physics, and applied category theory. Wikipedia Born: 1961 (age 64 years), San Francisco, CA Partner: Lisa Raphals h-index: 65 Nationality: American Education: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Princeton University Awards: Levi L. Conant Prize The surprising thing was that it listed my h-index! I don't have any sense of whether mine h-index is good compared to other mathematicians, but mainly it's annoying to be rated in this way.

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@olibrendel@scicomm.xyz 2026-01-09 16:35

@rastinza@qoto.org @johncarlosbaez@mathstodon.xyz yes, OpenAlex is a good start, but not good enough to do actual bibliographic work.

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