[Irtalk] The Great Curve II: Citation distributions and reverse engineering the JIF | quantixed

[Hilton Gibson]

Trying to understand what data goes into the Journal Impact Factor
calculation (for some, but not all journals) is very difficult. This makes
JIFs very hard to reproduce. As a general rule in science, we don’t trust
things that can’t be reproduced, so why has the JIF persisted.* I think
most people realise by now that using this single number to draw
conclusions about the excellence (or not) of a paper because it was
published in a certain journal, is madness.*

https://quantixed.wordpress.com/2016/01/05/the-great-curve-ii-citation-distributions-and-reverse-engineering-the-jif/
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