Perhaps the most problematic classification system in the scientific community is that of the impact factor, which attempts to rank journals by their relative importance. This factor for a particular ...

The prominent academic journal Chemosphere is the latest title to lose its impact factor—a metric often controversially used to evaluate researchers and their work—after retracting a series of papers ...

With an ever-growing roster of specialized scientific publications out there, how are scientists, funding agencies, and academic institutions supposed to decide which ones to take seriously? Anyone in ...