https://revistas.ucm.es/index.php/MBOT <p><em>Mediterranean Botany</em> (ISSNe 2603-9109) publishes original research in the field of Botany, including plant systematics, vegetation ecology, biogeography, evolutionary biology, ecophysiology, community ecology, ethnobotany and conservation biology from Mediterranean biomes and nearby regions. <em>Mediterranean Botany</em> is a DIAMOND OPEN ACCESS Journal, free of charge for both authors and readers.</p> Ediciones Complutense en-US Mediterranean Botany 2603-9109 <p><em>Mediterranean Botany </em>is an open access journal to promote global exchange knowledge. It facilitates unrestricted access to its contents from the moment of publication in its electronic edition. The originals published are property of the Universidad Complutense and it is mandatory to cite such source in case of total or partial reproduction. All contents are distributed under a Creative Commons License 4.0 (CC BY 4.0). This circumstance must be expressly stated in this way when necessary. You can check the informative version and legal text of the license.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> https://revistas.ucm.es/index.php/MBOT/article/view/99402 <p>The use of metrics in the evaluation of a researcher’s output is now a common practice and has a decisive influence on their career (metricracy). It is widespread to consider the Journal Impact Factor (JIF) as a means of assessing the quality and significance of a paper. It has been discussed that it is appropriate to use a metric that evaluates each paper based on its citations rather than the journal in which it was published. Other parameters such as the number of years since publication, the number of authors and their position in the author list are also discussed and a formula for scoring each published article is proposed.</p> Javier Loidi Copyright (c) 2024 Mediterranean Botany 2024-12-18 2024-12-18 45 2 1 6 10.5209/mbot.99402