Impact Factor Predicts Unreliability Of Research Papers

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“…we’ve already seen that the most prominent way of ranking scholarly journals, Thomson Reuters’ Impact Factor (IF), isn’t a very good measure for predicting how many citations your scientific paper will attract. Instead, there is evidence that IF is much better at predicting the chance that your paper might get retracted.”

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