A declaration asks the scientific community to put less weight on the metric, widely used to evaluate journals’ prestige.
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A new study reveals that more and more of the world’s most-cited articles are published outside of high prestige, high impact factor journals.
Thomson Reuters has published the most current citation statistics for scientific journals, and the rankings hold a few surprises.
A survey shows that younger researchers in the social sciences and business fields are being told to cite more papers from the journal that is publishing their work.
Is the pressure of the publish-or-perish mentality driving more researchers to commit misconduct?
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