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- Title
The Impact Factor Game.
- Authors
Editors, The <em>PLoS Medicine</em>
- Abstract
The article discusses how a journal's impact factor is calculated. An equation used to calculate the impact factor of a journal is presented and explained. Journals indexed by Thomson Scientific are considered in the calculation. However, the impact of an individual publication in a journal cannot be assessed with such calculations. Impact factors of journals are used in many inappropriate ways including the decision on whether an author should be promoted.
- Publication
PLoS Medicine, 2006, Vol 3, Issue 6, pe291
- ISSN
1549-1277
- Publication type
Academic Journal
- DOI
10.1371/journal.pmed.0030291