Although Richard Monastersky describes a real problem — the abuse of journals’ impact factors — its solution is so obvious that we hardly need so many words on the subject (“The Number ...

For an industry based on advancement, medical journals are very rigid. Take for example the impact factor, defined as the number of citations divided by the number of papers published in the ...

Krell refers to Bradford's law of scattering, but he needs instead to provide data to show that entomology ... journals, respectively. A critical element in determining the impact factor of ...

Trickery by editors to boost their journal impact factor means that the widely used metric “has now lost most of its credibility,” according to Research Policy journal. With many editors now engaged ...

Journal of Medical Entomology is published bimonthly in January, March, May, July, September, and November. The journal publishes reports on all phases of medical entomology and medical acarology ...

Perhaps the most problematic classification system in the scientific community is that of the impact factor, which attempts to rank journals by their relative importance. This factor for a particular ...

The impact factor, a decades-old metric that purports to measure the quality of journals, is a bit like a corrupt bureaucrat: overly powerful, largely incompetent, and widely feared. But the ...

Ranking row An international declaration by more than 150 leading scientists and 75 scientific organisations is demanding a rethink of the role 'journal impact factor' plays in the evaluation of ...

Find out about the journal aims and scope. To allow immediate global open access to all articles, npj Entomology levies an article processing charge (APC). Current APCs and waiver information are ...

By compiling articles' cited references, the JCR’s Journal Impact Factor (JIF) is one of several measurements available to authors to gauge quality, impact, and trustworthiness of publications, along ...