The assumption here is that articles published in journals with high impact factors count more than do articles published in journals with lower impact factors. (sciencemag.org)
Last year, he and Fang devised a «retraction index» to show that journals with relatively high impact factors, such as Science, Nature, and Cell, had a higher rate of retractions. (sciencemag.org)
Nonetheless, «there are journals with open peer - review processes that have extremely high impact factors, so it's entirely possible to do this kind of work and maintain all those traditional markers of prestige,» Fitzpatrick says. (sciencemag.org)