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PLoS Says NO to Journal Impact Factor

July 30th, 2009 · 22 Comments · Academic Publishing

The simple and direct measurement of scientific publications is assessed traditionally by the journal impact factor in terms of the citation analysis of the average performance of the papers published in the journal. The journal impact factor, with the latest 2008 IF list released last month, is relatively an appropriate impact indicator of the scholarly [...]

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Latest Impact Factor 2008 for Developmental Biology Related Journal

June 23rd, 2009 · 32 Comments · Academic Publishing

What needs to be emphasized first is that, no one likes the Impact Factor “game” including publishers and especially researchers.
Still, I am interested to check the latest developmental biology related journals’ Impact Factor launched out by Thomson Reuters at ISI Web of Knowledge for Journal Citation Reports (JCR) 2008, and IF, based on statistical and [...]

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2008/2009 JCR SCI Impact Factor released

June 20th, 2009 · 52 Comments · Academic Publishing

Today the latest version of 2008/2009 SCI Impact Factor (Science Citation Index) has been launched out from JCR of ISI Web of Knowledge.
This year 2 new indexes are taken into consideration in the SCI citation analysis, namely “Eigenfactor Score” and “Article Influence”. The journal performance in developmental biology has a bit of changes as in [...]

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