Libya, HIV, and open communication

Jeang, Kuan‐Teh

doi:10.1186/1742-4690-3-99

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“…In the past, to support the interest of equal access to knowledge by scientists and students in developing economies who cannot afford subscription-based journals, I have argued that we have a responsibility to support Open Access publishing [10]. From a principled point of view, not to do so is poorly defensible.…”

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Impact factor, H index, peer comparisons, and Retrovirology: is it time to individualize citation metrics?

Jeang

2007

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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?

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confidence: 99%