Every September, a ripple of excitement passes through the scientific community as the Institute of Scientific Information (ISI) publishes its latest set of impact factors, in which some six thousand ...

Impact factor (IF) is a useful tool to evaluate a scientific publication. The impact of a publication on the community can bear little relationship to the impact factor. This paper describes how IF is ...

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Understanding the Material Science and Engineering Journal Impact Factor So, what’s this whole "Impact Factor" thing all ...