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1: Retrovirology. 2007 Jun 18;4:42.Click here to read Click here to read Links

Impact factor, H index, peer comparisons, and Retrovirology: is it time to individualize citation metrics?

Jeang KT.

There is a natural tendency to judge a gift by the attractiveness of its wrapping. In some respect, this reflects current mores of measuring the gravitas of a scientific paper based on the journal cover in which the work appears. Most journals have an impact factor (IF) which some proudly display on their face page. Although historically journal IF has been a convenient quantitative shorthand, has its (mis)use contributed to inaccurate perceptions of the quality of scientific articles? Is now the time that equally convenient but more individually accurate metrics be adopted?

PMID: 17577403 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

PMCID: PMC1894640