Tuyển tập các báo cáo nghiên cứu về y học được đăng trên tạp chí y học 'Respiratory Research cung cấp cho các bạn kiến thức về ngành y đề tài: " Impact factor, H index, peer comparisons, and Retrovirology: is it time to individualize citation metrics. | Retrovirology BioMed Central Open Access Impact factor H index peer comparisons and Retrovirology is it time to individualize citation metrics Kuan-Teh Jeang Address National Institutes of Health Bethesda MD USA Email Kuan-Teh Jeang - kjeang@ Corresponding author Published 18 June 2007 Retrovirology 2007 4 42 doi 1742-4690-4-42 Received 15 June 2007 Accepted 18 June 2007 This article is available from http content 4 1 42 2007 Jeang licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http licenses by which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract There is a natural tendency to judge a gift by the attractiveness of its wrapping. In some respect this reflects current mores of measuring the gravitas of a scientific paper based on the journal cover in which the work appears. Most journals have an impact factor IF which some proudly display on their face page. Although historically journal IF has been a convenient quantitative shorthand has its mis use contributed to inaccurate perceptions of the quality of scientific articles Is now the time that equally convenient but more individually accurate metrics be adopted I surmise that a common question posed to an editor of a new journal is What is your impact factor Based on my experience in the majority of instances as the conversation evolves it becomes evident that the questioner misunderstands what impact factor means. IF is a useful number. However its limitations must be clearly recognized. Given the pervasive if not obsessive interest in IF Retrovirology as a new journal entering its fourth year of publication has necessarily mined the citation databases and calculated IF numbers for 2005 and 2006 1 . After having captured those numbers it is perhaps instructive to consider some .
