The case against personalized impact factorsOur academic forefathers would never have believed us. Universities use an index designed for Liberians to assess journals' use as a measure for individual scientific performance. When I write universities, I actually mean us. In the quest to lessen the burden of committee work, we welcome almost any available index to save us the time required for reading and thinking, which are the prerequisites for qualified opinions. In fact, why gather to identify the most worthy, when the decision relies on a checklist and two numbers? These two numbers are the sums of