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Impact factor, H index, peer comparisons, and Retrovirology: is it time to individualize citation metrics?
There is a natural tendency to judge a gift by the attractiveness of its wrapping. In some respect, this reflects current mores of measuring the gravitas of a scientific paper based on the journal cover in which the work appears. Most journals have an impact factor (IF) which some proudly display on...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1894640/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17577403 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1742-4690-4-42 |
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description | There is a natural tendency to judge a gift by the attractiveness of its wrapping. In some respect, this reflects current mores of measuring the gravitas of a scientific paper based on the journal cover in which the work appears. Most journals have an impact factor (IF) which some proudly display on their face page. Although historically journal IF has been a convenient quantitative shorthand, has its (mis)use contributed to inaccurate perceptions of the quality of scientific articles? Is now the time that equally convenient but more individually accurate metrics be adopted? |
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spelling | pubmed-18946402007-06-19 Impact factor, H index, peer comparisons, and Retrovirology: is it time to individualize citation metrics? Jeang, Kuan-Teh Retrovirology Editorial There is a natural tendency to judge a gift by the attractiveness of its wrapping. In some respect, this reflects current mores of measuring the gravitas of a scientific paper based on the journal cover in which the work appears. Most journals have an impact factor (IF) which some proudly display on their face page. Although historically journal IF has been a convenient quantitative shorthand, has its (mis)use contributed to inaccurate perceptions of the quality of scientific articles? Is now the time that equally convenient but more individually accurate metrics be adopted? BioMed Central 2007-06-18 /pmc/articles/PMC1894640/ /pubmed/17577403 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1742-4690-4-42 Text en Copyright © 2007 Jeang; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License ( (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0) ), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Editorial Jeang, Kuan-Teh Impact factor, H index, peer comparisons, and Retrovirology: is it time to individualize citation metrics? |
title | Impact factor, H index, peer comparisons, and Retrovirology: is it time to individualize citation metrics? |
title_full | Impact factor, H index, peer comparisons, and Retrovirology: is it time to individualize citation metrics? |
title_fullStr | Impact factor, H index, peer comparisons, and Retrovirology: is it time to individualize citation metrics? |
title_full_unstemmed | Impact factor, H index, peer comparisons, and Retrovirology: is it time to individualize citation metrics? |
title_short | Impact factor, H index, peer comparisons, and Retrovirology: is it time to individualize citation metrics? |
title_sort | impact factor, h index, peer comparisons, and retrovirology: is it time to individualize citation metrics? |
topic | Editorial |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1894640/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17577403 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1742-4690-4-42 |
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