\"In Germany, universities distribute money to researchers by a formula that includes the
Thomson impact factor. Each point of impact factor is worth about 1000 Euros.
(Stephan Mertens, personal communication).
In Pakistan, researchers receive bonuses of up to US$20,000 a year depending on the sum
of the impact factors of the journals in which they publish.3 Half is for researchers’
personal use.3
In Finland, a portion of hospital funding from the government depends on the impact
factor of journals in which the hospital researchers publish. An increase in one point
of impact factor for one paper can increase a hospital’s funding by US$7000.4\"
Uses a panel of (volunteer) experts to select important articles in thier field; quite like faculty of 1000
\n\"we doubt that a popularity poll can indicate academic merit\"
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says nothing at all about how well read
and discussed the journal is outside the
core scientifi c community or whether it
infl uences health policy.\"
\"Thomson Scientifi c has no explicit
process for deciding which articles
other than original research articles
it deems as citable.\"
\"science is currently rated by a process
that is itself unscientific, subjective, and
secretive\"
\"Magazine sections\" \"...will rarely
be cited in indexed journals, but may
be infl uential, for example, in changing
health policy, or may be of educational
value. For such articles, more relevant
measures of impact may be the number
of times they are downloaded, or
covered in news articles, or referenced
in policy documents.\"
\"The opening
up of the literature means that better
ways of assessing papers and journals
are coming—and we should embrace
them\"
IF is \"is strongly biased in favour of
American journals.\"
\"The result,
unfortunately, may be that which Malcolm Chiswick, previous
editor of Archives of Disease in Childhood, described
as an ‘impacted journal’, constipated with articles that are
highly cited but of little interest to most readers\"
this is a followup to \"show me the data\" by the same authors.
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\n\"Just as scientists would not accept the findings in a scientific paper without seeing the primary data, so should they not rely on Thomson Scientific’s impact factor, which is based on hidden data.\"
\nThey found lots of errors using, using JCR data from Thompson to recalculate the IF.
\nThrere's a follow up called \"Irreproducible results: a response to Thomson Scientific \" by the same authors
\"In Pakistan, under a system introduced
by the science ministry in 2002, researchers
can receive $1,000 to $20,000, based mainly on
the cumulative one-year impact factor of their
publications.\"
\"The Chinese Academy of Sciences’ Institute
of Biophysics in Beijing has a scale tuned to
impact factors. Authors published in journals
with an impact factor between 3 and 5 receive
2,000 yuan ($250) per point, while a factor
over 10 earns 7,000 yuan ($875) per point.\"
\"Table. 1. Top-ten in journal IF manipulations
\n1. Requiring revision of the manuscript references section
and inclusion of articles published in the editor’s journal
or affiliate journals
2. Publishing summaries of articles with relevant citations
to them (usually in the form of “what was published in
the journal last year”)
3. Inflating self-citation through editorials and readers’
comments on published articles
4. Publishing articles that add citations to the nominator
but which are not counted as “citable”
5. Publishing a larger percentage of review articles over
less-cited articles, including original research and, especially,
case reports
6. Rejecting negative studies, regardless of their quality
7. Rejecting confirmatory studies
8. Favoring the acceptance of articles originating from
large and scientifically active research groups as well as
articles with a large number of authors
9. Attracting the work of renowned scientists and leaders
of research regardless of the real quality
10. Publishing mainly popular science articles that deal with
“hot” topics\"
Serious studies have been done, such as that of P. O. Seglen (Br. Med. J. 314, 498–502; 1997), which shows that the citation rate for individual papers is essentially uncorrelated to the impact factor of the journal in which it was published.
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\n\"Try as we might, my colleagues and I cannot reconcile our
own counts of citable items in Nature, several other
Nature journals and indeed Science, with those used
by ISI.\"
calls for \"greater granularity\": descriptions of co-authors' individual contributions, citation of papers' sub-sections
\n\"accountability tyranny: the over-dependence, in superficial assessments, on journalbrands...\"
\nPLoS ONE users must \"wade through a morass of papers of hugely mixed quality\"
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in the year 2007...in which they cited all 66 articles
published in that journal during the years 2005 and
2006.54 This strategy of self-citation raised the journal
impact factor from a value of 0.655 for 2006 to 1.439 for
2007\"
large works cited / references section
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destroy scientific inquiry as we know it.\"
introduction to special issue.
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15, 2006", "volume": "441", "issue": "7095", "section": "", "partNumber": "", "partTitle": "", "pages": "792", "series": "", "seriesTitle": "", "seriesText": "", "journalAbbreviation": "Nature", "DOI": "10.1038/441792b", "citationKey": "", "url": "http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/441792b", "accessDate": "2009-12-17T01:16:10Z", "PMID": "", "PMCID": "", "ISSN": "0028-0836", "archive": "", "archiveLocation": "", "shortTitle": "Cash for papers", "language": "", "libraryCatalog": "Nature", "callNumber": "", "rights": "", "extra": "", "tags": [ { "tag": "IF" }, { "tag": "citations" }, { "tag": "metrics" } ], "collections": [], "relations": { "owl:sameAs": "http://zotero.org/groups/5421/items/ZC5SWRG2" }, "dateAdded": "2010-10-16T00:02:01Z", "dateModified": "2010-10-16T00:02:01Z" } }, { "key": "SUCA59D2", "version": 1, "library": { "type": "group", "id": 28907, "name": "Impact Factor problems", "links": { "alternate": { "href": "https://www.zotero.org/groups/impact_factor_problems", "type": "text/html" } } }, "links": { "self": { "href": "https://api.zotero.org/groups/28907/items/SUCA59D2", "type": "application/json" }, "alternate": { "href": "https://www.zotero.org/groups/impact_factor_problems/items/SUCA59D2", "type": "text/html" } }, "meta": { "createdByUser": { "id": 3460, "username": "jason", "name": "Jason Priem", "links": { "alternate": { "href": "https://www.zotero.org/jason", "type": "text/html" } } }, "creatorSummary": "Falagas and Alexiou", "parsedDate": "2008", "numChildren": 1 }, "data": { "key": "SUCA59D2", "version": 1, "itemType": "journalArticle", "title": "The top-ten in journal impact factor manipulation", "creators": [ { "creatorType": "author", "firstName": "Matthew", "lastName": "Falagas" }, { "creatorType": "author", "firstName": "Vangelis", "lastName": "Alexiou" } ], "abstractNote": "Abstract A considerable part of the scientific community is, at least to some degree, involved in the “impact factor game” Editors\nstrive to increase their journals — impact factor (IF) in order to gain influence in the fields of basic and applied research\nand scientists seek to profit from the “added value” of publishing in top IF journals. In this article we point out the most\ncommon “tricks” of engineering and manipulating the IF undertaken by a portion of professionals of the scientific publishing\nindustry. They attempt to increase the nominator or decrease the denominator of the IF equation by taking advantage of certain\ndesign flaws and disadvantages of the IF that permit a degree of artificial and arbitrary inflation. Some of these practices,\nif not scientifically unethical, are at least questionable and should be abandoned. Editors and publishers should strive for\nquality through fair and thoughtful selection of papers forwarded for peer review and editorial comments that enhance the\nquality and scientific accuracy of a manuscript.", "publicationTitle": "Archivum Immunologiae et Therapiae Experimentalis", "publisher": "", "place": "", "date": "2008", "volume": "56", "issue": "4", "section": "", "partNumber": "", "partTitle": "", "pages": "223-226", "series": "", "seriesTitle": "", "seriesText": "", "journalAbbreviation": "", "DOI": "10.1007/s00005-008-0024-5", "citationKey": "", "url": "http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00005-008-0024-5", "accessDate": "2009-11-25T08:03:06Z", "PMID": "", "PMCID": "", "ISSN": "", "archive": "", "archiveLocation": "", "shortTitle": "", "language": "", "libraryCatalog": "SpringerLink", "callNumber": "", "rights": "", "extra": "", "tags": [ { "tag": "IF" }, { "tag": "citations" }, { "tag": "metrics" } ], "collections": [], "relations": { "owl:sameAs": "http://zotero.org/groups/5421/items/7TXJTGEZ" }, "dateAdded": "2010-10-16T00:02:01Z", "dateModified": "2010-10-16T00:02:01Z" } }, { "key": "Z6EW6AX6", "version": 1, "library": { "type": "group", "id": 28907, "name": "Impact Factor problems", "links": { "alternate": { "href": "https://www.zotero.org/groups/impact_factor_problems", "type": "text/html" } } }, "links": { "self": { "href": "https://api.zotero.org/groups/28907/items/Z6EW6AX6", "type": "application/json" }, "alternate": { "href": "https://www.zotero.org/groups/impact_factor_problems/items/Z6EW6AX6", "type": "text/html" } }, "meta": { "createdByUser": { "id": 3460, "username": "jason", "name": "Jason Priem", "links": { "alternate": { "href": "https://www.zotero.org/jason", "type": "text/html" } } }, "creatorSummary": "Colquhoun", "parsedDate": "2003", "numChildren": 1 }, "data": { "key": "Z6EW6AX6", "version": 1, "itemType": "journalArticle", "title": "Challenging the tyranny of impact factors", "creators": [ { "creatorType": "author", "firstName": "D.", "lastName": "Colquhoun" } ], "abstractNote": "", "publicationTitle": "Nature", "publisher": "", "place": "", "date": "2003", "volume": "423", "issue": "6939", "section": "", "partNumber": "", "partTitle": "", "pages": "479", "series": "", "seriesTitle": "", "seriesText": "", "journalAbbreviation": "", "DOI": "", "citationKey": "", "url": "", "accessDate": "", "PMID": "", "PMCID": "", "ISSN": "", "archive": "", "archiveLocation": "", "shortTitle": "", "language": "", "libraryCatalog": "", "callNumber": "", "rights": "", "extra": "", "tags": [ { "tag": "IF" }, { "tag": "citations" }, { "tag": "metrics" } ], "collections": [], "relations": { "owl:sameAs": "http://zotero.org/groups/5421/items/VEIDCS4W" }, "dateAdded": "2010-10-16T00:02:01Z", "dateModified": "2010-10-16T00:02:01Z" } }, { "key": "THGBSK9Z", "version": 1, "library": { "type": "group", "id": 28907, "name": "Impact Factor problems", "links": { "alternate": { "href": "https://www.zotero.org/groups/impact_factor_problems", "type": "text/html" } } }, "links": { "self": { "href": "https://api.zotero.org/groups/28907/items/THGBSK9Z", "type": "application/json" }, "alternate": { "href": "https://www.zotero.org/groups/impact_factor_problems/items/THGBSK9Z", "type": "text/html" } }, "meta": { "createdByUser": { "id": 3460, "username": "jason", "name": "Jason Priem", "links": { "alternate": { "href": "https://www.zotero.org/jason", "type": "text/html" } } }, "creatorSummary": "Campbell", "parsedDate": "2008", "numChildren": 1 }, "data": { "key": "THGBSK9Z", "version": 1, "itemType": "journalArticle", "title": "Escape from the impact factor", "creators": [ { "creatorType": "author", "firstName": "P.", "lastName": "Campbell" } ], "abstractNote": "", "publicationTitle": "Ethics in Science and Environmental Politics(ESEP)", "publisher": "", "place": "", "date": "2008", "volume": "8", "issue": "1", "section": "", "partNumber": "", "partTitle": "", "pages": "5-7", "series": "", "seriesTitle": "", "seriesText": "", "journalAbbreviation": "", "DOI": "", "citationKey": "", "url": "", "accessDate": "", "PMID": "", "PMCID": "", "ISSN": "", "archive": "", "archiveLocation": "", "shortTitle": "", "language": "", "libraryCatalog": "", "callNumber": "", "rights": "", "extra": "", "tags": [ { "tag": "IF" }, { "tag": "citations" }, { "tag": "metrics" } ], "collections": [], "relations": { "owl:sameAs": "http://zotero.org/groups/5421/items/XCTWTBAF" }, "dateAdded": "2010-10-16T00:02:01Z", "dateModified": "2010-10-16T00:02:01Z" } } ]