<div dir="ltr">So consider all that we know of impact factors and think on this: <b><font color="#ff0000">if you use impact factors you are statistically illiterate.</font></b><br><br><ul><li>If you include journal impact factors in the list of publications in your cv, you are statistically illiterate.<br>
</li><li>If you are judging grant or promotion applications and find yourself scanning the applicant’s publications, checking off the impact factors, you are statistically illiterate.<br></li><li>If you publish a journal that trumpets its impact factor in adverts or emails, you are statistically illiterate. (If you trumpet that impact factor to three decimal places, there is little hope for you.)<br>
</li><li>If you see someone else using impact factors and make no attempt at correction, you connive at statistical illiteracy.<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"></div>
<br></li></ul><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"></div><br><a href="http://occamstypewriter.org/scurry/2012/08/13/sick-of-impact-factors/">http://occamstypewriter.org/scurry/2012/08/13/sick-of-impact-factors/</a></div>
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