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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 environment.
Bornmann L, Pudovkin AI.
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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
McKiernan EC +5 more
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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 ...
Saginur M +6 more
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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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Comparing journals from different fields of science and social science through a JCR subject categories normalized impact factor [PDF]
, 2012 The journal Impact Factor (IF) is not comparable among fields of Science and Social Science because of systematic differences in publication and citation behaviour across disciplines.
Pablo Dorta‐González +1 more
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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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API Magazin, 2021 Obwohl der Journal Impact Factor seit seiner Entwicklung und Etablierung in den 1960er und 1970er Jahren immer mehr in Kritik gekommen ist, ist er noch heute, fast 60 Jahre später, einer der wichtigsten Indikatoren zur Messung des Einflusses von wissenschaftlichen Fachzeitschriften.
Hannah Hirschberg
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