Impact factors – the basics

J Cross

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At the simplest level, journal impact factors give the average number of citations to articles in a particular journal; essentially, the average number of times that articles in a journal are referenced by other articles. Impact factors were conceptualized by Eugene Garfield and Irving H Sher in the 1960s as an aid to evaluating journals for inclusion in Current

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