Counting on citations: a flawed way to measure quality.
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.
Walter
Garry
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Rivendell Unit, Child Adolescent and Family Psychiatric Services, Thomas Walker Hospital, Concord West, NSW, Australia. gwalter@mail.usyd.edu.au
Bloch
Sidney
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Hunt
Glenn
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Fisher
Karen
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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