Journal Impact Factor

Journal Impact Factor

Authors

  • chinmay shah Assistant Professor, Department of Physiology Government Medical College, Bhavnagar

Abstract

 Like nuclear energy, the impact factor has become a mixed blessing. I expected that it would be used constructively while recognizing that in the wrong hands it might be abused. In the early 1960s Irving H. Sher and Eugene Garfield created the journal impact factor to help select journals for the Science Citation Index (SCI

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Published

2017-11-07

How to Cite

shah, chinmay. (2017). Journal Impact Factor: Journal Impact Factor. National Journal of Integrated Research in Medicine, 1(1), 1–3. Retrieved from http://nicpd.ac.in/ojs-/index.php/njirm/article/view/46

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Section

Editorial