Bradford’s law, the long tail principle, and transparency in Journal Impact Factor calculations

Beyond the commonly mentioned limitations of the Journal Impact Factor, we discuss the obsolete principle of selecting journals to create a fake-representative sample of ‘journals that matter’ and the opacity around the calculation and listing of Impact Factors. We use the example of Pharmacy Practi...

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Autor principal: Fernandez-Llimos, Fernando
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Centro de Investigaciones y Publicaciones Farmaceuticas 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5061526/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27785170
http://dx.doi.org/10.18549/PharmPract.2014.03.842
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description Beyond the commonly mentioned limitations of the Journal Impact Factor, we discuss the obsolete principle of selecting journals to create a fake-representative sample of ‘journals that matter’ and the opacity around the calculation and listing of Impact Factors. We use the example of Pharmacy Practice: in 2015 for illustration. We hypothesize that a business-oriented system of measuring the science and quality of scholarly journals may not be the best option to avoid biases and conflicts of interest.
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spelling pubmed-50615262016-10-26 Bradford’s law, the long tail principle, and transparency in Journal Impact Factor calculations Fernandez-Llimos, Fernando Pharm Pract (Granada) Editorial Beyond the commonly mentioned limitations of the Journal Impact Factor, we discuss the obsolete principle of selecting journals to create a fake-representative sample of ‘journals that matter’ and the opacity around the calculation and listing of Impact Factors. We use the example of Pharmacy Practice: in 2015 for illustration. We hypothesize that a business-oriented system of measuring the science and quality of scholarly journals may not be the best option to avoid biases and conflicts of interest. Centro de Investigaciones y Publicaciones Farmaceuticas 2016 2016-09-15 /pmc/articles/PMC5061526/ /pubmed/27785170 http://dx.doi.org/10.18549/PharmPract.2014.03.842 Text en Copyright: © Pharmacy Practice http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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