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The meaning of the 'impact factor' in the case of an open-access journal
The dominant model of journal evaluation emerged at the time when there were no open-access journals, and nobody has assessed yet whether this model is able to cope with this modern reality. This commentary attempts to fill the gaps in the common understanding of the role that 'impact factor�...
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| Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3060111/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21362201 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1750-0680-6-1 |
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| author | Alexandrov, Georgii A |
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| description | The dominant model of journal evaluation emerged at the time when there were no open-access journals, and nobody has assessed yet whether this model is able to cope with this modern reality. This commentary attempts to fill the gaps in the common understanding of the role that 'impact factor' should play in evaluation of open-access journals. |
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| spelling | pubmed-30601112011-03-18 The meaning of the 'impact factor' in the case of an open-access journal Alexandrov, Georgii A Carbon Balance Manag Editorial The dominant model of journal evaluation emerged at the time when there were no open-access journals, and nobody has assessed yet whether this model is able to cope with this modern reality. This commentary attempts to fill the gaps in the common understanding of the role that 'impact factor' should play in evaluation of open-access journals. BioMed Central 2011-03-02 /pmc/articles/PMC3060111/ /pubmed/21362201 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1750-0680-6-1 Text en Copyright ©2011 Alexandrov; 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 Alexandrov, Georgii A The meaning of the 'impact factor' in the case of an open-access journal |
| title | The meaning of the 'impact factor' in the case of an open-access journal |
| title_full | The meaning of the 'impact factor' in the case of an open-access journal |
| title_fullStr | The meaning of the 'impact factor' in the case of an open-access journal |
| title_full_unstemmed | The meaning of the 'impact factor' in the case of an open-access journal |
| title_short | The meaning of the 'impact factor' in the case of an open-access journal |
| title_sort | meaning of the 'impact factor' in the case of an open-access journal |
| topic | Editorial |
| url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3060111/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21362201 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1750-0680-6-1 |
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