The journal impact factor: judging a book by its cover.
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Abstract
Journal impact factors have been used to evaluate the quality of the work of an individual author and as a guide to the quality of a given study. Despite a rough correlation between the quality of an article and the impact factor of the journal it is published in, the reader cannot be sure of the value of an individual article without a careful appraisal of its content.
Medical subject headings
- Biliary Tract Diseases
- Liver Diseases
- Periodicals as Topic
- Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic