New record: 66 journals banned for boosting impact factor with self-citations : Nature News Blog

More on the Journal Impact Factor from Richard Van Noorden.

Since the journal’s publisher, PLoS, is a signatory of DORA, it probably does not mind [the fall of its Journal Impact Factor].

via New record: 66 journals banned for boosting impact factor with self-citations : Nature News Blog.

My earlier post on DORA is also relevant.

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