Beat it, impact factor! Publishing elite turns against controversial metric : Nature News & Comment
Best part - the news from ASM
"And in an editorial that will appear on 11 July in eight of its journals, the American Society for Microbiology in Washington DC will announce plans to remove the impact factor from its journals and website, as well as from marketing and advertising.
“To me, what’s essential is to purge the conversation of the impact factor,” says ASM chief executive Stefano Bertuzzi, a prominent critic of the metric. “We want to make it so tacky that people will be embarrassed just to mention it.”
This is in relation to the recent preprint I posted about a few minutes ago ...
Worth a read: A simple proposal for the publication of journal citation distributions
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