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Impact factors rocked by manipulation charge.
Byline: Tracey Caldwell
Impact factors rocked
by manipulation charge
Tracey Caldwell
Shady practices by editors and publishers seeking to boost their impact factor rankings have thrown the integrity of ranking into question.
Impact factor rankings measure the number of times a journal is cited in research papers. This figure is an increasingly important measure of the success and prestige of a journal.
A report by the Wall Street Journal on some of the worst examples has reignited the debate about ensuring the integrity of citation rankings.
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