Reply to Argüelles and Argüelles-Prieto, "Are the Editors Responsible for Our Obsession with the Impact Factor?"

Affiliations

¹ Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, USA acasade1@jhu.edu.
² Department of Microbiology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA.

Comment

Arturo Casadevall et al. mBio. 2017.

. 2017 Dec 19;8(6):e02079-17.

doi: 10.1128/mBio.02079-17.

¹ Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, USA acasade1@jhu.edu.
² Department of Microbiology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA.

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Keywords: editors; impact factor; publishing.

Comment on

Causes for the persistence of impact factor mania.
Casadevall A, Fang FC. Casadevall A, et al. mBio. 2014 Mar 18;5(2):e00064-14. doi: 10.1128/mBio.00064-14. mBio. 2014. PMID: 24643863 Free PMC article. Review.
Impacted science: impact is not importance.
Casadevall A, Fang FC. Casadevall A, et al. mBio. 2015 Oct 13;6(5):e01593-15. doi: 10.1128/mBio.01593-15. mBio. 2015. PMID: 26463169 Free PMC article.
Are the Editors Responsible for Our Obsession with the Impact Factor?
Argüelles JC, Argüelles-Prieto R. Argüelles JC, et al. mBio. 2017 Dec 19;8(6):e02019-17. doi: 10.1128/mBio.02019-17. mBio. 2017. PMID: 29259087 Free PMC article. No abstract available.

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