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ASM Journals Eliminate Impact Factor Information from Journal Websites

Many scientists attempt to publish their work in a journal with the highest possible journal impact factor (IF). Despite widespread condemnation of the use of journal IFs to assess the significance of published work, these numbers continue to be widely misused in publication, hiring, funding, and pr...

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Autores principales: Casadevall, Arturo, Bertuzzi, Stefano, Buchmeier, Michael J., Davis, Roger J., Drake, Harold, Fang, Ferric C., Gilbert, Jack, Goldman, Barbara M., Imperiale, Michael J., Matsumura, Philip, McAdam, Alexander J., Pasetti, Marcela F., Sandri-Goldin, Rozanne M., Silhavy, Thomas, Rice, Louis, Young, Jo-Anne H., Shenk, Thomas
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: American Society for Microbiology 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4941020/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27408939
http://dx.doi.org/10.1128/mSphere.00184-16
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author Casadevall, Arturo
Bertuzzi, Stefano
Buchmeier, Michael J.
Davis, Roger J.
Drake, Harold
Fang, Ferric C.
Gilbert, Jack
Goldman, Barbara M.
Imperiale, Michael J.
Matsumura, Philip
McAdam, Alexander J.
Pasetti, Marcela F.
Sandri-Goldin, Rozanne M.
Silhavy, Thomas
Rice, Louis
Young, Jo-Anne H.
Shenk, Thomas
author_facet Casadevall, Arturo
Bertuzzi, Stefano
Buchmeier, Michael J.
Davis, Roger J.
Drake, Harold
Fang, Ferric C.
Gilbert, Jack
Goldman, Barbara M.
Imperiale, Michael J.
Matsumura, Philip
McAdam, Alexander J.
Pasetti, Marcela F.
Sandri-Goldin, Rozanne M.
Silhavy, Thomas
Rice, Louis
Young, Jo-Anne H.
Shenk, Thomas
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description Many scientists attempt to publish their work in a journal with the highest possible journal impact factor (IF). Despite widespread condemnation of the use of journal IFs to assess the significance of published work, these numbers continue to be widely misused in publication, hiring, funding, and promotion decisions (1, 2).
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spelling pubmed-49410202016-07-12 ASM Journals Eliminate Impact Factor Information from Journal Websites Casadevall, Arturo Bertuzzi, Stefano Buchmeier, Michael J. Davis, Roger J. Drake, Harold Fang, Ferric C. Gilbert, Jack Goldman, Barbara M. Imperiale, Michael J. Matsumura, Philip McAdam, Alexander J. Pasetti, Marcela F. Sandri-Goldin, Rozanne M. Silhavy, Thomas Rice, Louis Young, Jo-Anne H. Shenk, Thomas mSphere Editorial Many scientists attempt to publish their work in a journal with the highest possible journal impact factor (IF). Despite widespread condemnation of the use of journal IFs to assess the significance of published work, these numbers continue to be widely misused in publication, hiring, funding, and promotion decisions (1, 2). American Society for Microbiology 2016-07-11 /pmc/articles/PMC4941020/ /pubmed/27408939 http://dx.doi.org/10.1128/mSphere.00184-16 Text en Copyright © 2016 Casadevall et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) .
spellingShingle Editorial
Casadevall, Arturo
Bertuzzi, Stefano
Buchmeier, Michael J.
Davis, Roger J.
Drake, Harold
Fang, Ferric C.
Gilbert, Jack
Goldman, Barbara M.
Imperiale, Michael J.
Matsumura, Philip
McAdam, Alexander J.
Pasetti, Marcela F.
Sandri-Goldin, Rozanne M.
Silhavy, Thomas
Rice, Louis
Young, Jo-Anne H.
Shenk, Thomas
ASM Journals Eliminate Impact Factor Information from Journal Websites
title ASM Journals Eliminate Impact Factor Information from Journal Websites
title_full ASM Journals Eliminate Impact Factor Information from Journal Websites
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title_full_unstemmed ASM Journals Eliminate Impact Factor Information from Journal Websites
title_short ASM Journals Eliminate Impact Factor Information from Journal Websites
title_sort asm journals eliminate impact factor information from journal websites
topic Editorial
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4941020/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27408939
http://dx.doi.org/10.1128/mSphere.00184-16
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