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 ...

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 ...

CRANBURY, N.J., July 28, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The American Journal of Managed Care® (AJMC®), the leading multimedia peer-reviewed journal dedicated to issues in managed care, today announced that ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

It turns out, that the Journal Impact Factor is a pretty bad predictor for scientific impact (as measured by citations)... The Journal Impact Factor (JIF or short IF) of Journal X is the number of ...

Background: Twitter is an increasingly popular means of research dissemination. I sought to examine the relation between scientific merit and mainstream popularity of general medical journals. Methods ...

Brendan Crabb receives funding from the National Health & Medical Research Council. Science is a highly competitive business so measuring the impact of scientific research, meaningfully and ...