Science journals should calculate more-detailed citation distributions to indicate the impact of individual studies published in their pages instead of relying on the less-transparent journal impact ...

Nature Chemical Biology's impact factor of 12.409 reflects the growing visibility and impact of research at the interface of chemistry and biology. To achieve our goal of publishing the highest ...

Figure 1: Cumulative citations to papers in four journals, based on data from the ISI Web of Science ... of the usefulness is lost. Journal impact factors cannot be used to quantify the importance ...

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