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Impact Factor: The Metric You Love to Hate

This entry is part 27 of 35 in the series The Scholarship of Public Health

Thomson Reuters has released the 2016 Journal Citation Reports®, which contain Impact Factors for all of the 11,000-plus journals that they index. As usual, it has caused a high level of mass consternation. As the sky is most certainly not falling, despite indications otherwise, I felt obligated to chime in and let you know a little secret: it’s not the

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