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> From: Tim Maisch <tmmaisch at viro.med.uni-erlangen.de>
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> Subject: Impact-factor
> Date: Fri, 24 Sep 1999 09:32:49 +0200
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>> Hallo!
> I need a list of bioscience, medical journals with the impact-factors
of
> all these journals.
> For example which impact-factor has the journal "nature-medicine"?
> Were can I found this list in the internet?
> Thank you
> Tim
>The biggest weakness of academics (and scientific academics in
particular) is their fondness for fine detail. "Impact factors" is a
brilliant example of the way in which our lords and masters can divert
academic attention from important issues into total trivia.
I was taught this by an Indian colleague who had sussed out that the one
thing politicians DO NOT WANT is a load of academics thinking about
important things. So - give them lots of trivia to worry about and they
will take the hook without even thinking. (This rather puts into
question what they are paid for in the first place).
Peter,
Reading, UK.
