Thursday, December 13, 2012

A historian on impact factors

Following  my post Impact factors have no impact on me, a question was raised about the role of impact factors in different disciplines and whether they are useful for making comparisons.

Factoring impact describes a history Ph.D student's perspective on first encountering impact factors.

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