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IMPACTITIS: THE IMPACT FACTOR MYTH SYNDROME

BACKGROUND: In the early 1960s, Eugene Garfield and Irving Sher created the journal impact factor to help select journals for the Science Citation Index (SCI). Today it has become a widespread subject of controversy even for Garfield, the man who created it who is quoted saying “Impact Factor is not...

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Autores principales: Elsaie, Mohamed L, Kammer, Jenna
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications 2009
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2800883/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20049281
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0019-5154.48998