Journal impact factor: uses and misuses.

Abstract

“In 1955, it did not occur to me that ‘impact ’ would one day become so controversial. Like nuclear energy, the impact factor is a mixed blessing; I expected it to be used constructively while recognizing that in the wrong hands it might be abused.”

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