Ferrini, Silvia; Tucci, Marco P. - Dipartimento di Economia Politica e Statistics, … - 2011
The Impact Factor (IF) “has moved ... from an obscure bibliometric indicator to become the chief quantitative measure of the quality of a journal, its research papers, the researchers who wrote those papers, and even the institution they work in” ([2], p. 1). However, the use of this index...