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Rethinking impact factors: better ways to judge a journal

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  • Paul Wouters
  • Cassidy R. Sugimoto
  • Vincent Larivière
  • Marie E. McVeigh
  • Bernd Pulverer
  • Sarah de Rijcke
  • Ludo Waltman

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We need a broader, more-transparent suite of metrics to improve science publishing, say Paul Wouters, colleagues and co-signatories.

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  • Paul Wouters & Cassidy R. Sugimoto & Vincent Larivière & Marie E. McVeigh & Bernd Pulverer & Sarah de Rijcke & Ludo Waltman, 2019. "Rethinking impact factors: better ways to judge a journal," Nature, Nature, vol. 569(7758), pages 621-623, May.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:nature:v:569:y:2019:i:7758:d:10.1038_d41586-019-01643-3
    DOI: 10.1038/d41586-019-01643-3
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    1. Jaime A. Teixeira da Silva & Daniel J. Dunleavy & Mina Moradzadeh & Joshua Eykens, 2021. "A credit-like rating system to determine the legitimacy of scientific journals and publishers," Scientometrics, Springer;Akadémiai Kiadó, vol. 126(10), pages 8589-8616, October.
    2. Brooks, Chris & Schopohl, Lisa & Walker, James T., 2023. "Comparing perceptions of the impact of journal rankings between fields," CRITICAL PERSPECTIVES ON ACCOUNTING, Elsevier, vol. 90(C).
    3. Emanuel Kulczycki & Ying Huang & Alesia A. Zuccala & Tim C. E. Engels & Antonio Ferrara & Raf Guns & Janne Pölönen & Gunnar Sivertsen & Zehra Taşkın & Lin Zhang, 2022. "Uses of the Journal Impact Factor in national journal rankings in China and Europe," Journal of the Association for Information Science & Technology, Association for Information Science & Technology, vol. 73(12), pages 1741-1754, December.

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