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Nefarious numbers. (English) Zbl 1223.01044

The authors give a critical account – with many examples – of the misusage of the impact factor as a measure for journal quality. They argue that “by impact factor manipulation, the engineering of this supposed measure of journal quality in ways that increase the measure but do not add to – indeed subtract from – journal quality.”

MSC:

01A90 Bibliographic studies
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