“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 in “ingenious ways” of boosting their impact factor, “one of the main bastions holding back the growing scourge of research misconduct” has been “breached”, the publication warns in an editorial.”
https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/journal-impact-factors-no-longer-credible
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Klaus Graf (8. November 2015). Journal Impact Factors zu manipuliert? Archivalia. Abgerufen am 7. Februar 2025 von https://doi.org/10.58079/bexq