Collecting some articles and blog posts on impact factor uses and misuses. Inspired by this blog post: Sick of Impact Factors | Reciprocal Space
- U Toledo JOURNAL IMPACT FACTORS: USE AND MISUSE
- The Journal Impact Factor: Too Much of an Impact? Ha et al. in Ann Acad Med Singapore 2006;35:911-6
- PPT from U. Illinois Journal Impact Factors A tool to help identify key research in your field
- More reason to outlaw Impact Factors from personnel discussions … from The Occasional Pamphlet blog June 14, 2012
- EASE statement on inappropriate use of impact factors The journal …
- NHMRC: Use of Journal Impact factor in peer review of individual applications. Contains lots of very useful references.
- Dempsey 2009 IMPACT FACTOR AND ITS ROLE IN ACADEMIC PROMOTION: A statement adopted by the International Respiratory Journal Editors 12 Roundtable. J. Appl. Physiology
- Trends in the Usage of ISI Bibliometric Data: Uses, Abuses, and …History of the journal impact factor: Contingencies and consequences Cameron, Brian D., “Trends in the Usage of ISI Bibliometric Data: Uses, Abuses, and Implications” (2005). Librarian and Staff Publications. Paper 3.
- Does the Journal Impact Factor Help make a Good Indicator of Academic Performance? PDF from SK Mishra.
- 2006 PLoS Medicine Editorial: The Impact Factor Game
- Citrome 2007. Impact Factor? Shmimpact Factor!
- A Biologist’s Guide to Impact Factors – Michael Rosenberg from ASU
- Impact factors: uses and abuses. Neuberger and Counsell. 2002.
- The use, misuse, and misconception of impact factor. Asari & Aziz. 2005. International Medical Journal.
- The Misuse of the Impact Factor – Mushtaq 2007.
- The impact factor and other measures of journal prestige
Suggestions welcome for other articles …
UPDATE 1: 130 PM 8/18
Some additional articles
- Impacting our Young Editorial by Marder et al. in PNAS 2012
- Seglen in BMJ 1997 Why the impact factor of journals should not be used for evaluating research (not open access)
- Garfield E. The Agony and the Ecstasy – The History and Meaning of the Journal Impact Factor…
- Holden et al. Should Decisions About Your Hiring, Reappointment, Tenure, or Promotion Use the Impact Factor Score as a Proxy Indicator of the Impact of Your Scholarship? …. Includes video ..
- Richard Smith: The power of the unrelenting impact factor Is it a force for good or harm?- International Journal of Epidemiology…
- Ogden and Bartley 2008 The Ups and Downs of Journal Impact Factors
UPDATE 2: 8/19 8 PM
- Created a Mendeley Group on this topic
http://www.mendeley.com/groups/2486431/impact-factor/widget/29/10/
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Jonathan Eisen's Lab 
Thanks for collecting these posts. I wrote one a couple of months ago over at Jabberwocky Ecology. It mostly focuses on what we should do if we actually want a decent journal level metric, though at the end I concur with several of the posts in the list that it's really time to just move on to paper level metrics anyway.
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I listed a bunch of links at the bottoms of these posts:
http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2008/11/28/why-does-impact-factor-persist/
and
http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2008/05/08/the-impact-factor-folly/
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Another, on gaming of the IF: http://www.ams.org/notices/201103/rtx110300434p.pdf
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