{"id":912,"date":"2021-02-25T08:42:12","date_gmt":"2021-02-25T13:42:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/environmentalscience\/?p=912"},"modified":"2025-02-26T14:05:53","modified_gmt":"2025-02-26T19:05:53","slug":"carletons-highly-cited-researchers-prof-steven-cooke-is-reevaluating-how-research-impact-is-measured","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/environmentalscience\/2021\/carletons-highly-cited-researchers-prof-steven-cooke-is-reevaluating-how-research-impact-is-measured\/","title":{"rendered":"Carleton\u2019s Highly Cited Researchers: Prof. Steven Cooke is Reevaluating How Research Impact is Measured"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Carleton\u2019s Highly Cited Researchers: Prof. Steven Cooke is Reevaluating How Research Impact is Measured\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<p>One might think that inclusion on the 2020 Web of Science Group\u2019s&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/recognition.webofscience.com\/awards\/highly-cited\/2020\/\">Highly Cited Researchers list<\/a>&nbsp;and holding the top spot on&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/scholar.google.com\/citations?hl=en&amp;user=CAlipoMAAAAJ\">Google Scholar<\/a>&nbsp;in fish ecology research are signs of scientific success. But to&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.fecpl.ca\/people\/\">Steven Cooke<\/a>, a professor in Carleton University\u2019s Department of Biology&nbsp;and&nbsp;Institute of Environmental and Interdisciplinary Science, this is only one measure of success, and a bittersweet one at that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Cooke\u2019s research focuses on freshwater biodiversity, a subject he\u2019s been researching and publishing papers about for 20 years, but he says he\u2019s \u201cstill waiting for cause to celebrate\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/research.carleton.ca\/story\/carletons-highly-cited-researchers-prof-steven-cooke-is-reevaluating-how-research-impact-is-measured\/?utm_source=Homepage&amp;utm_medium=Banner\">more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One might think that inclusion on the 2020 Web of Science Group\u2019s&nbsp;Highly Cited Researchers list&nbsp;and holding the top spot on&nbsp;Google Scholar&nbsp;in fish ecology research are signs of scientific success. But to&nbsp;Steven Cooke, a professor in Carleton University\u2019s Department of Biology&nbsp;and&nbsp;Institute of Environmental and Interdisciplinary Science, this is only one measure of success, and a bittersweet [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/environmentalscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/912","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/environmentalscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/environmentalscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/environmentalscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/environmentalscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=912"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/environmentalscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/912\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":913,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/environmentalscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/912\/revisions\/913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/environmentalscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/environmentalscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/environmentalscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}