1 Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Department of Epidemiology, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA. mszklo@jhsph.edu
This commentary emphasizes the importance of Hernán's contention that the impact factor's strong dependence on nonquality factors makes it utterly flawed as a way to evaluate quality of journals or papers.
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Comment
MeSH terms
Bibliometrics*
Epilepsy / epidemiology*
Humans
Peer Review
Periodicals as Topic* / classification
Periodicals as Topic* / statistics & numerical data