Impact factor impacting our scientific research – Probable solutions

How is impact factor impacting our research?

The impact factor (IF) of an journal is a measure reflecting the average number of citations to recent articles published in the journal. It is frequently used as a proxy for the relative importance of a journal within its field, with journals with higher impact factors deemed to be more important than those with lower ones. However it is not a perfect metric and has its own limitations. Journa...

Impacting our young.

M uch has been written about impact factors, how they are calculated, and what they do and do not measure. Briefly, the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) impact factor is calculated for each journal as the number of citations per paper published in that journal in the prior 2 years. When the 2-year impact factor was designed, it was intended to be an aid to librarians making decisions ...

Our Problems: Our Solutions

Discussion on the unique characteristics of psychiatry in a non-Western country like India, often tend to be limited to culture-bound syndrome like Koro, possession state etc. It is, no doubt, important for us to be able to recognize these problems and render effective treatment to individuals suffering from them. It is also interesting to speculate on the cultural factors which contribute to t...

Scientific competition, impact factor, and Altmetrics

IMpACTing on adult ADHD research.

In the last 20 years there has been an increasing awareness that attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) not only is the most frequent psychiatric disorder in childhood, but also persists into adulthood in at least 15% of cases (adult ADHD, aADHD) (Faraone et al., 2006). This chronic, substantial impairment as well as the co-morbid conditions being the rule rather than the exception in ...