Does higher education need another ranking? For Elsevier, the answer is yes. Last week, the publisher launched CiteScore, a set of metrics that measure a scholarly journal’s impact by looking at the ...

Although Richard Monastersky describes a real problem — the abuse of journals’ impact factors — its solution is so obvious that we hardly need so many words on the subject (“The Number That’s ...

Perhaps the most problematic classification system in the scientific community is that of the impact factor, which attempts to rank journals by their relative importance. This factor for a particular ...

Nature and the Nature journals are diversifying their presentation of performance indicators. Metrics are intrinsically reductive and, as such, can be dangerous. Relying on them as a yardstick of ...

The impact factor, a decades-old metric that purports to measure the quality of journals, is a bit like a corrupt bureaucrat: overly powerful, largely incompetent, and widely feared. But the bureau ...

A measure originally intended for ranking the value of journals to researchers may have a distorting influence on publishers, as well as on agencies that finance research, writes Hannah Brown, a ...

Many researchers still see the journal impact factor (JIF) as a key metric for promotions and tenure, despite concerns that it’s a flawed measure of a researcher’s value. A journal’s impact factor ...

ROSEMONT, Ill., June 19, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- The Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology remains the top peer-reviewed journal in its field for the sixth straight year, according to the 2024 ...