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Spurious alternative impact factors: The scale of the problem from an academic perspective.

Fredy R S Gutierrez¹, Jeffrey Beall, Diego A Forero.

Abstract

The recent explosion in the number of predatory journals has led to the appearance of questionable websites providing fake or spurious impact factors, which are analyzed and discussed here. We believe that academic associations, universities, and research funding bodies must take action to stop these questionable practices.

Keywords: bibliometrics; science metrics; scientific publishing

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Year: 2015 PMID： 25731149 DOI： 10.1002/bies.201500011

Source DB: PubMed Journal: Bioessays ISSN： 0265-9247 Impact factor: 4.345

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Spurious alternative impact factors: The scale of the problem from an academic perspective.

Review 1. Publishing Ethics and Predatory Practices: A Dilemma for All Stakeholders of Science Communication.

2. Impact factor correlations with Scimago Journal Rank, Source Normalized Impact per Paper, Eigenfactor Score, and the CiteScore in Radiology, Nuclear Medicine & Medical Imaging journals.

3. Guidelines to authors publishing a case report: the need for quality improvement.

4. The forensic implications of predatory publishing.

5. New journals for publishing medical case reports.

6. Eigenfactor score and alternative bibliometrics surpass the impact factor in a 2-years ahead annual-citation calculation: a linear mixed design model analysis of Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Medical Imaging journals.

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