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The impact factor and psychiatry journals: an international perspective

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Sundararajan Rajagopal
Sundararajan Rajagopal*
Affiliation:
Chennai, India, email rajagsr@hotmail.com
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Abstract

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The impact factor (IF) is a metric for assessing academic journals. Despite its shortcomings, the IF is the preeminent yardstick by which the quality of scientific journals is determined. In this paper, the key aspects of the IF are covered from an international perspective, with a specific emphasis on psychiatry journals.

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BJPsych International , Volume 14 , Issue 1 , February 2017 , pp. 15 - 18
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This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists 2017

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