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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

[Toronto, June 24, 2024] – JMIR Publications is pleased to announce the outstanding performance of its scholarly journals in the 2024 release of Journal Citation Reports (JCR) by Clarivate, which ...

Every university has a list of A journals, those it considers to be the most prestigious in its field. Even the journals that rank institutions have such lists, and many universities use them to ...

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 ...

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 ...

DURHAM, N.C. – Scientists don't just want their results to be published; they want them to be published in the most influential journal they can find. This focus on a high 'impact factor' is driven by ...