Impact factor: Universalism and reliability of assessment

In 1955, Eugene Garfield (1925-1917) published a paper in Science where for the first time he advocated the necessity of introducing parameters to assess the quality of scientific journals. Underlying this necessity was an observation of a trend where the whole area of influence in academic publishing was dominated by a narrow group of large interdisciplinary research journals. For this reason, along with Irving H. Sher, they created the impact factor (IF), also called the Garfield impact factor, journal citation rate, journal influence, and journal impact factor.

Source: Clinics in Dermatology - May 1, 2017 Category: Dermatology Authors: Andrzej Grzybowski, Rafa ł Patryn Tags: Clio DermatologiciaMauricio Goihman-Yahr MD, PhD, Section Editor Source Type: research