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Rethinking impact factors: better ways to judge a journal

We need a broader, more-transparent suite of metrics to improve science publishing, say Paul Wouters, colleagues and co-signatories. We need a broader, more-transparent suite of metrics to improve science publishing, say Paul Wouters, colleagues and co-signatories.

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Published in:Nature (London) 2019-05, Vol.569 (7758), p.621-623
Main Authors: Wouters, Paul, Sugimoto, Cassidy R., Larivière, Vincent, McVeigh, Marie E., Pulverer, Bernd, de Rijcke, Sarah, Waltman, Ludo
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