Understanding the Nature Materials Journal Impact Factor So, what’s this "Impact Factor" thing everyone talks about, especially ...

Every September, a ripple of excitement passes through the scientific community as the Institute of Scientific Information (ISI) publishes its latest set of impact factors, in which some six thousand ...

Thomson Reuters vows to be clearer in the future about the "impact factor," an annual ranking of more than 10,000 scientific journals The most misused metric in science is getting a makeover — ...

The papers we published in 2008 and 2009 received on average 29.9 citations each in 2010. However, nearly 30% of them were cited more than 30 times, contributing to roughly two-thirds of the impact ...