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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Survey finds that 40% of research-intensive universities mention the controversial metric in review documents — despite efforts to dampen its influence. Almost half of research-intensive universities ...

With an ever-growing roster of specialized scientific publications out there, how are scientists, funding agencies, and academic institutions supposed to decide which ones to take seriously? Anyone in ...

Recently launched OA journals recognized for quality in latest Journal Citation Reports™ PISCATAWAY, N.J., 27 July 2023 -- IEEE, the world’s largest technical professional organization advancing ...

(Toronto, ON, June 20, 2025) JMIR Publications, a leading publisher of open access digital health research, is pleased to announce new Journal Impact Factors for its journals, as published in Journal ...

https://doi.org/10.1641/b570702 • https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1641/b570702 Copy URL AA Agrawal. 2005. Corruption of journal impact factors. Trends in Ecology ...

The European Society of Endocrinology's (ESE) Journal the European Journal of Endocrinology (EJE) has reached its highest ever Journal Impact FactorTM (JIF) in the 2020 Journal Citation ReportsTM (JCR ...