I have quite vivid memories of sitting in front of the (black and white) television as a child, watching documentaries about the cargo cults of the Pacific islands. They have largely faded away and I suspect that many of our students and younger researchers have never heard of them, but cargo cults were a big […]
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The journal impact factor (JIF), or simply ‘impact factor’, was introduced in 1975 as a metric to rank consumers’ levels of interest in scientific journals. An early application was to assist librarians in deciding which subscriptions they should purchase for their institutions. Therefore, it was designed as a market research tool and was never intended
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