Time to Remodel the Journal Impact Factor

Jul 27, 2016, 10:10 AM by Michael Croft
Nature News & Comment | Nature and the Nature journals are diversifying their presentation of performance indicators. Impact factor is crude and also misleading. It effectively undervalues papers in disciplines that are slow-burning or have lower characteristic citation rates. Accordingly, Nature has updated its online journal metrics page to include an array of additional bibliometric data.

July 27, 2016 | Nature and the Nature journals are diversifying their presentation of performance indicators. Impact factor is crude and also misleading. It effectively undervalues papers in disciplines that are slow-burning or have lower characteristic citation rates. Accordingly, Nature has updated its online journal metrics page to include an array of additional bibliometric data. Nature News & Comment