"The impact factor was invented by an American computer scientist Eugene Garfield (1925-2017) 4 in 1955 5. Garfield is regarded as key in the development of scientometrics, the quantitative assessment of the sciences, and bibliometrics, i.e. the statistical measurement of the influence or impact that academic articles have 3,4."
"The impact factor was invented by an American computer scientist Eugene Garfield (1925-2017) 4 in 1955 5. Garfield is regarded as key in the development of scientometrics, the quantitative assessment of the sciences, and bibliometrics, i.e. the statistical measurement of the influence or impact that academic articles have 3,4."
"However, scientific research is not free from possible fraud. A classic example of this are the citation cartels or networks of researchers who agree to cite each other in their respective publications - regardless of the scientific value of the research - in order to grow their own citation profile by artificially increasing the H -index 6."
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"Development of the impact factor"
"Citation cartels"