How impact factors changed medical publishing—and science

Volume: 334, Issue: 7593, Pages: 561 - 564
Published: Mar 15, 2007
Abstract
Hannah Brown investigates the use and abuse of journal rankings George Lundberg spent the early 1980s lamenting the loss of his journal's once great reputation. JAMA (the Journal of the American Medical Association ), which he had taken over in 1982, had been in decline since its peak of popularity in the 1960s. And a new set of rankings that pitted medical journals against each other on the basis of article citations now seemed to confirm...
Paper Details
Title
How impact factors changed medical publishing—and science
Published Date
Mar 15, 2007
Journal
Volume
334
Issue
7593
Pages
561 - 564
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