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Impact Factor Inflation: When an Increase is a Actually a Decrease -

(scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org): Every June, publishers and editors anxiously await the Parade of the Journal Citation Reports, and hope — some even pray — that their own numbers will increase. After all, an increase is an increase, right? In spite of a plea from one liblicense-l reader, it didn’t take long for publishers to begin crunching 2009 performance figures to see how well they did.

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