The Disaster of the Impact Factor
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Today, JIF is often misused due to a misinterpretation of its meaning, as it has become a standard tool in virtually all evaluation practices at all levels, usually without proper considerations of the rationale for its use.
“However, today, JIF is often misused due to a misinterpretation of its meaning, as it has become a standard tool in virtually all evaluation practices at all levels, usually without proper considerations of the rationale for its use [2,44,222,224-227].”
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- Authors
- Moustafa, K.
- Affiliations
- Inserm (FR)
- Corresponding author
- Moustafa, Khaled
- ORCID
- Moustafa, Khaled
- Venue
- Science and Engineering Ethics
- Published
- 2014-01-28
- Volume
- 21
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 139-142
- ISSN
- 1353-3452 (ISSN-L)
- 1471-5546
- OpenAlex
- W2141162029
- Cited by
- 90
- References
- 14
- Citations by year
- 2024: 6 · 2023: 4 · 2022: 7 · 2021: 8 · 2020: 13 · 2019: 5 · 2018: 18 · 2017: 12 · 2016: 7 · 2015: 6 · 2014: 4
- FWCI
- 9.46
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- osf.io
- Licence
- Locations
- Science and Engineering Ethics (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- PhilPapers (PhilPapers Foundation) (submittedVersion)
- OSF Preprints (OSF Preprints) (submittedVersion, cc-by)
- OSF Preprints (OSF Preprints) (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Decision Sciences › Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty › scientometrics and bibliometrics research
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › History and Philosophy of Science › Publishing and Scholarly Communication
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Psychology Research and Bibliometrics
- Keywords
- journal impact factor, citation metrics, research evaluation, publication pressure, scientific quality, research funding allocation, journal prestige, research ethics
- MeSH terms
- Disasters, Humans, Publishing, Ethics, Research, Journal Impact Factor
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