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, B.
(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.
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 |
|---|---|
| Copyright holders | © 2011 The Author |
| Departments | LSE |
| Date Deposited | 22 Aug 2013 |
| URI | https://researchonline.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/51881 |