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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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In 2016, ASM declared that JIFs will no longer be posted to ASM journal websites or used in advertising.
“in 2016, the American Society of Microbiology (ASM) declared that JIFs will no longer be posted to the ASM journal websites or used in advertising [226].”
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- Callaway, E.
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- Social Sciences › Decision Sciences › Information Systems and Management › Academic Publishing and Open Access
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- impact factor, journal impact factor, scholarly publishing, research evaluation, scientific journals, journal editors, bibliometric analysis
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- Periodicals as Topic, Publishing, Journal Impact Factor
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