What's So Bad About The Impact Factor - Part 3. What Did You All Say? - Digital Science

"Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve taken a brief look at Impact Factor (IF) and some of the criticisms that are levelled at it. As promised, I’m going to report on some of the feedback that we’ve received, particularly on the Twitter hashtag #IFwhatswrong. The week before last, I focused on one of the statistical objections to IF, put simply – it’s an arithmetic mean, but should be a median. The mathematical argument appealed to Riccardo Sapienza, from King’s College, who tweeted about it ..."