title: Counting on citations: a flawed way to measure quality.
abstract: The journal Impact Factor and citation counts are misconstrued and misused as measures of scientific quality. Articles must be read in order to judge their quality. We have introduced a system, which may be easily replicated, to identify the best articles published in a journal.
authors.affiliation: Rivendell Unit, Child Adolescent and Family Psychiatric Services, Thomas Walker Hospital, Concord West, NSW, Australia. gwalter@mail.usyd.edu.au
authors.forename: Garry
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Walter
authors.forename: Sidney
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Bloch
authors.forename: Glenn
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Hunt
authors.forename: Karen
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Fisher
mesh_terms: D016206:Databases, Bibliographic; D006801:Humans; D010380:Peer Review; D010506:Periodicals as Topic / Q000592:standards* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D011786:Quality Control; D012106:Research / Q000592:standards