Relationship between journal impact factor and the thoroughness and helpfulness of peer reviews. [PDF]
PLoS Biol, 2023 The Journal Impact Factor is often used as a proxy measure for journal quality, but the empirical evidence is scarce. In particular, it is unclear how peer review characteristics for a journal relate to its impact factor.
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J Med Internet Res, 2022 Background Journal impact factor (IF) is the leading method of scholarly assessment in today’s research world, influencing where scholars submit their research and where funders distribute their resources. COVID-19, one of the most serious health crises,
Delardas O, Giannos P.
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Use of the Journal Impact Factor in academic review, promotion, and tenure evaluations. [PDF]
Elife, 2019 We analyzed how often and in what ways the Journal Impact Factor (JIF) is currently used in review, promotion, and tenure (RPT) documents of a representative sample of universities from the United States and Canada. 40% of research-intensive institutions
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Journal impact factor, trial effect size, and methodological quality appear scantly related: a systematic review and meta-analysis. [PDF]
Syst Rev, 2020 Background As systematic reviews’ limited coverage of the medical literature necessitates decision-making based on unsystematic review, we investigated a possible advantage of systematic review (aside from dataset size and systematic analysis): does ...
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Use of the journal impact factor for assessing individual articles: Statistically flawed or not? [PDF]
F1000Res, 2020 Most scientometricians reject the use of the journal impact factor for assessing individual articles and their authors. The well-known San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment also strongly objects against this way of using the impact factor ...
Waltman L, Traag VA.
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Differences and similarities between Journal Impact Factor and CiteScore. [PDF]
Pharm Pract (Granada), 2018 Two major journal-based metrics are in competition: the Journal Impact Factor and CiteScore. Although these two metrics are based on similar principles of measuring the impact by citations, some differences between them exist. Years used to calculate the
Fernandez-Llimos F.
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The Journal Impact Factor is under attack - use the CAPCI factor instead. [PDF]
BMC Med, 2017 The uses and misuses of the Journal Impact Factor (JIF) have been thoroughly discussed in the literature. A few years ago, I predicted that JIF would soon be replaced, while another colleague argued the opposite.
Diamandis EP.
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The Journal Impact Factor Should Not Be Discarded. [PDF]
J Korean Med Sci, 2017 The Journal Impact Factor (JIF) has been heavily criticized over decades. This opinion piece argues that the JIF should not be demonized. It still can be employed for research evaluation purposes by carefully considering the context and academic ...
Bornmann L, Pudovkin AI.
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Evaluating Journal Impact Factor: a systematic survey of the pros and cons, and overview of alternative measures [PDF]
Journal of Venomous Animals and Toxins including Tropical Diseases, 2020 Background: Journal Impact Factor (JIF) has several intrinsic flaws, which highlight its inability to adequately measure citation distributions or indicate journal quality.
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Journal Impact Factor: Do the Numerator and Denominator Need Correction? [PDF]
PLoS One, 2016 To correct the incongruence of document types between the numerator and denominator in the traditional impact factor (IF), we make a corresponding adjustment to its formula and present five corrective IFs: IFTotal/Total, IFTotal/AREL, IFAR/AR, IFAREL/AR,
Liu XL, Gai SS, Zhou J.
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