The demise of the Impact Factor: The strength of the relationship between citation rates and IF is down to levels last seen 40 years ago

Lozano, George (2012) The demise of the Impact Factor: The strength of the relationship between citation rates and IF is down to levels last seen 40 years ago. [Online resource]
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Jobs, grants, prestige and career advancement are all partially based on an admittedly flawed concept: the journal Impact Factor. Impact factors have been becoming increasingly meaningless since 1991, writes George Lozano, who finds that the variance of papers’ citation rates around their journals’ IF has been rising steadily.
Item Type Online resource
Departments LSE
Date Deposited 27 Aug 2013 09:32
URI https://researchonline.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/52015

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