[Mla-cds] FYI. Articles on Impact Factors

[Humphreys, Betsy (NIH/NLM) [E]]

And this JMLA article continues to get very heavy use in PubMed Central:

Impact factor: a valid measure of journal quality?
Somnath Saha, Sanjay Saint, and Dimitri A. Christakis
J Med Libr Assoc. 2003 January; 91(1): 42–46. 
PMCID: PMC141186

Betsy

-----Original Message-----
From: Locke J Morrisey [mailto:morrisey at usfca.edu]
Sent: Tue 4/29/2008 8:53 PM
To: MLA CDS; MLA NAHRS
Subject: [Mla-cds] FYI. Articles on Impact Factors
 
The current issue of Epidemiology has several short articles questioning
the use of Impact Factors. The articles are free so you don't even have
to subscribe to get them.
Thought it might interest some of you. 

http://www.epidem.com/pt/re/epidemiology/currenttoc.htm


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