After a series of tweets and a couple of Facebook posts about the problems of the Journal Impact Factor (JIF), I was approached by a colleague who asked me: “so why are you obsessed with this”? My answer was that it irks me that I have to use the JIF next to my publications in […]
Quite a bit has been written about how the journal impact factor (JIF) is a bad metric. The JIF is supposed to measure a journal’s impact using a formula that normalizes the number of cited articles in a given time frame (typically a year). It is calculated exclusively by Thomson-Reuters, and is trademarked by this […]
