• DOI:10.1001/JAMA.295.1.90
Corpus ID: 31183037

The history and meaning of the journal impact factor.

@article{Garfield2006TheHA,
  title={The history and meaning of the journal impact factor.},
  author={E. Garfield},
  journal={JAMA},
  year={2006},
  volume={295 1},
  pages={
          90-3
        }
}

E. Garfield

Published 2006

Medicine

JAMA

IFIRST MENTIONED THE IDEA OF AN IMPACT FACTOR IN Science in 1955. With support from the National Institutes of Health, the experimental Genetics Citation Index was published, and that led to the 1961 publication of the Science Citation Index. Irving H. Sher and I created the journal impact factor to help select additional source journals. To do this we simply re-sorted the author citation index into the journal citation index. From this simple exercise, we learned that initially a core group of… CONTINUE READING

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