The Journal Impact Factor is under attack – use the CAPCI factor instead
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- 作者：Eleftherios P. Diamandis
- 关键词：Journal impact factor ; CAPCI factor ; Scientific impact ; Journal quality
- 刊名：BMC Medicine
- 出版年：2017
- 出版时间：December 2017
- 年：2017
- 卷：15
- 期：1
- 全文大小：317KB
- 刊物主题：Medicine/Public Health, general; Biomedicine, general;
- 出版者：BioMed Central
- ISSN：1741-7015
- 卷排序：15
文摘
The uses and misuses of the Journal Impact Factor (JIF) have been thoroughly discussed in the literature. A few years ago, I predicted that JIF would soon be replaced, while another colleague argued the opposite. Over the past few months, attacks on JIF have intensified, with some publishing organizations gradually removing the indicator from their journals’ websites. Here, I argue that most, if not all of the misuses of JIF are related to its name. The word “impact” should be removed, since it implies an influential attribute, either for the journals, their published papers, or their authors. I propose instead the use of a new name, the “CAPCI factor”, standing for Citation Average Per Citable Item, which accurately describes what is represented by this measure.