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 That’s ...

The prominent academic journal Chemosphere is the latest title to lose its impact factor—a metric often controversially used to evaluate researchers and their work—after retracting a series of papers ...

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Many researchers still see the journal impact factor (JIF) as a key metric for promotions and tenure, despite concerns that it’s a flawed measure of a researcher’s value. A journal’s impact factor ...