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    <title>Nature Network - impact factors</title>
    <description>The latest taggings for impact factors</description>
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      <title>2007 Impact Factors in context</title>
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        <![CDATA[Maxine Clarke - Various publishers have been putting out press releases to celebrate their new (2007) Impact Factors, each with their own spin on the numbers awarded by Thomson Reuters (the new name for Thomson ISI) to their journals. "Outsell Insights":http://www.outsellinc.com, a market]]>
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      <title>Downloads as publication metric -- 26 June 2008</title>
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        <![CDATA[Maxine Clarke - The citations-versus-downloads conversation continues. _Nature Neuroscience_'s editors have analysed the number of downloads a paper receives immediately after its appearance online, and find a high correlation with its citation frequency years after publication. Associate editor Noah Gray provides the details]]>
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      <title>2007 journal Impact Factors are published</title>
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        <![CDATA[Maxine Clarke - The 2007 Impact Factors are now out (yesterday, 17 June 2008). Although noted in this forum and elsewhere that Impact Factors are a flawed metric, readers of this forum might be interested in some of the new figures: "All listed]]>
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      <title>The Impact Factor Revolution: A Manifesto</title>
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        <![CDATA[Bob O'Hara - Bora has a post up about "impact factors":http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2008/05/the_impact_factor_folly.php that links to a discussion in _Epidemiology_. It's the usual stuff: how awful they are because they have all sorts of problems. We all know this, but of course it doesn't stop]]>
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