The story of fake impact factor companies and how we detected them

Beginning about three years ago, the world of academic publishing has become infected by fake impact factors and misleading metrics that are launched by bogus companies. The misleading metrics and fake impact factors have damaged the prestige and reliability of scientific research and scholarly jour...

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Autor principal: Jalalian, Mehrdad
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Electronic physician 2015
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Rapid Communication
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4477767/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26120416
http://dx.doi.org/10.14661/2015.1069-1072
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description Beginning about three years ago, the world of academic publishing has become infected by fake impact factors and misleading metrics that are launched by bogus companies. The misleading metrics and fake impact factors have damaged the prestige and reliability of scientific research and scholarly journals. This article presents the in-depth story of some of the main bogus impact factors, how they approached the academic world, and how the author identified them. Some names that they use are Universal Impact Factor (UIF), Global Impact Factor (GIF), and Citefactor, and there even is a fake Thomson Reuters Company.
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spelling pubmed-44777672015-06-26 The story of fake impact factor companies and how we detected them Jalalian, Mehrdad Electron Physician Rapid Communication Beginning about three years ago, the world of academic publishing has become infected by fake impact factors and misleading metrics that are launched by bogus companies. The misleading metrics and fake impact factors have damaged the prestige and reliability of scientific research and scholarly journals. This article presents the in-depth story of some of the main bogus impact factors, how they approached the academic world, and how the author identified them. Some names that they use are Universal Impact Factor (UIF), Global Impact Factor (GIF), and Citefactor, and there even is a fake Thomson Reuters Company. Electronic physician 2015-06-05 /pmc/articles/PMC4477767/ /pubmed/26120416 http://dx.doi.org/10.14661/2015.1069-1072 Text en © 2015 The Authors This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/) , which permits use and distribution in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, the use is non-commercial and no modifications or adaptations are made.
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