High impact factors are meant to represent strong citation rates, but these journal impact factors are more effective at predicting a paper’s retraction rate

Brembs, Björn (2011) High impact factors are meant to represent strong citation rates, but these journal impact factors are more effective at predicting a paper’s retraction rate. [Online resource]
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Journal ranking schemes may seem useful, but Björn Brembs discusses how the Thompson Reuters Impact Factor appears to be a reliable predictor of the number of retractions, rather than citations a given paper will receive. Should academics think twice about the benefits of publishing in a ‘high impact’ journal?
Item Type Online resource
Departments LSE
Date Deposited 22 Aug 2013 15:03
URI https://researchonline.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/51881

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