The formula to measure the quality of a research journal calls for a rethink The Higher Education Commission has adopted nearly half a century old measure proposed by bibliographer Eugene Garfield (in ...
Understanding the Material Science and Engineering A Impact Factor Landscape So, what’s this whole Impact Factor thing ...
Impact factor (IF) is a useful tool to evaluate a scientific publication. The impact of a publication on the community can bear little relationship to the impact factor. This paper describes how IF is ...
In the beginning, during the late 1950s, it was just an innocent idea in Eugene Garfield’s head. A Philadelphia researcher who described himself as a “documentation consultant,” Mr. Garfield spent his ...
Every September, a ripple of excitement passes through the scientific community as the Institute of Scientific Information (ISI) publishes its latest set of impact factors, in which some six thousand ...
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