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Relationship between journal impact factor and the thoroughness and helpfulness of peer reviews. [PDF]
PLoS Biology, 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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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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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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Building Journal Impact Factor Quartile into the Assessment of Academic Performance: A Case Study [PDF]
Participatory Educational Research, 7(2), 1-13 (2020), 2020 This study aims to provide information about the Q Concept defined as the division of journal impact factors into quartiles based on given field categories so that the disadvantages resulting from the direct use of journal impact factors can be eliminated.
Keziban Orbay, Ruben Miranda, M. Orbay
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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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Corruption of Journal Impact Factors [PDF]
Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 2006 Requiring authors to cite articles from the same journal in which they hope to publish is a practice that the Editors of all Trends journals disapprove of. Beyond pointing authors in the direction of papers that they might have missed and would improve the quality of their articles, we do not require authors to cite articles from our journals.
Anurag A. Agrawal
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Journal impact factor – Handle with care [PDF]
Biomedical Journal, 2016 Tanuj Kanchan, Kewal Krishan
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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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