Beware the tyranny of impact factors
Open Access
- 1 February 2008
- journal article
- editorial
- Published by British Editorial Society of Bone & Joint Surgery in The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery. British volume
- Vol. 90-B (2), 125-126
- https://doi.org/10.1302/0301-620x.90b2.20258
Abstract
The application and interpretation of the impact factor of a journal is fraught with problems, some of which are explored in this editorial.This publication has 13 references indexed in Scilit:
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