title: Impact factors: scientific and career assessment by numbers.
abstract: The most used scientific evaluation parameters today are: 1) The impact factor (IF) of scientific journals in which the papers of researchers, and their collaborators, are published and 2) The so-called H-factor which is used to evaluate the work of individual scientists. We explore in detail these particular parameters. Also we briefly discuss alternative forms of assessment in the modern age.
authors.affiliation: Thoraxcenter, ErasmusMC, Rotterdam, The Netherlands. n.bruining@erasmusmc.nl
authors.forename: Nico
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Bruining
authors.forename: Paul
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Cummins
authors.forename: Patrick W
authors.initials: PW
authors.lastname: Serruys
mesh_terms: D055811:Journal Impact Factor; D012586:Science