FW: [CHMINF-L] Journal impact factors free public access site

[Eugene Garfield]

http://online.wsj.com/public/us


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Subject: [CHMINF-L] Journal's impact factors

Interesting article by Sharon Begley in the Wall Street Journal for
today (6/5/06, p. B1), "Science Journals Artfully Try to Boost Their
Rankings: The ratings matter to publications' bottom lines because
librarians use them to decide which journals to buy."  The latter is not
stressed very much but the fun and games of efforts to boost impact
factors.

Pros and cons of citation studies are weighed briefly.  The article is
timely because Thomson Corps annual list of impact factors for journals
is due out later this month.

-- Bob Buntrock
Orono, ME