Scholarly Impact Quotient™ (SIQ™)

Scholarly Impact Quotient™ is our unique post-publication rating process that embraces the collective intelligence of the Cureus community at large.

Why Should I Care?

SIQ™ is designed to supplement our pre-publication peer review process and allows authors to receive immediate, valuable reader feedback without the politics inherent in most other metrics determining so-called “importance.” We do not consider impact factor to be a reliable or useful metric of individual article importance. Cureus is a signer of DORA — the San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment — and does not promote the use of journal impact factors.

SIQ is grounded in statistical power as a means of ensuring accuracy; the judgment of the many can diminish the biased influence of a few. Although the judgment of an individual or a limited number of peer reviewers may be flawed, the SIQ score harnesses the innate "wisdom of the crowd" (including peer reviewers, editors, colleagues, doctors, and researchers in unrelated disciplines) to assess an article’s importance.

How Does SIQ Work?

All registered users are invited to contribute to the Scholarly Impact Quotient™ (SIQ) of any published article. (Only one rating per user per article and authors cannot rate their own articles.)

• Domain experts > non-specialists - specialty relevance is considered when weighting each individual SIQ rating.
• The SIQ score is displayed after an article receives two ratings and is recalculated with each additional rating.
• Rating articles with Scholarly Impact Quotient™ will contribute to your Cureus honors progress.