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work_x46ggun26vai3lnnudlgzlbwvq	Marcus A. Banks	Emerging alternatives to the impact factor	2008	15	.pdf	application/pdf	3276	268	53	b. Measures that refine impact factor data with "page rank" indices that weight electronic proposed development of an "impact factor" that would rate the worth of a scientific article based The impact factor for a journal "x" is a ratio based upon the previous two years of citation data [1]. Crucially, the impact factor's calculation depends on the number of "citable items" a journal small number of highly cited articles can disproportionately skew the impact factor for a journal; journals that publish many review articles; and that the impact factor arbitrarily favors research in as a convenient metric for evaluating scholars; those who published in high impact journals would 2008 Research Assessment Exercise: "No panel will use journal impact factors as a proxy measure calculation of a journal's impact factor. The impact factor is a scholarly evaluation metric that continues to have some utility. (1997) "Why the impact factor of journals should not be used for evaluating 	./cache/work_x46ggun26vai3lnnudlgzlbwvq.pdf	./txt/work_x46ggun26vai3lnnudlgzlbwvq.txt