title: Making an impact: the rise of the impact factor as a measure of journal quality.
authors.affiliation: Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA.
authors.forename: Donna
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Leff
mesh_terms: D000043:Abstracting and Indexing / Q000592:standards / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D015706:Bibliometrics; D006801:Humans; D016243:Library Collection Development / Q000592:standards; D010506:Periodicals as Topic / Q000145:classification* / Q000592:standards*; D011786:Quality Control; D012108:Research Personnel; D014481:United States