title: ASM Journals Eliminate Impact Factor Information from Journal Websites.
abstract: Many scientists attempt to publish their work in a journal with the highest possible journal impact factor (IF). Despite widespread condemnation of the use of journal IFs to assess the significance of published work, these numbers continue to be widely misused in publication, hiring, funding, and promotion decisions (1, 2).
authors.affiliation: Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
authors.forename: Arturo
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Casadevall
authors.affiliation: American Society for Microbiology (ASM), Washington, DC, USA.
authors.forename: Stefano
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Bertuzzi
authors.affiliation: Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, California, USA.
authors.forename: Michael J
authors.initials: MJ
authors.lastname: Buchmeier
authors.affiliation: Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Chevy Chase, Maryland, USA, and Program in Molecular Medicine, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA.
authors.forename: Roger J
authors.initials: RJ
authors.lastname: Davis
authors.affiliation: Department of Ecological Microbiology, University of Bayreuth, Bayreuth, Germany.
authors.forename: Harold
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Drake
authors.affiliation: University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, Washington, USA.
authors.forename: Ferric C
authors.initials: FC
authors.lastname: Fang
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgery, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
authors.forename: Jack
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Gilbert
authors.affiliation: American Society for Microbiology (ASM), Washington, DC, USA.
authors.forename: Barbara M
authors.initials: BM
authors.lastname: Goldman
authors.affiliation: Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.
authors.forename: Michael J
authors.initials: MJ
authors.lastname: Imperiale
authors.affiliation: Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
authors.forename: Philip
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Matsumura
authors.affiliation: Boston Children's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
authors.forename: Alexander J
authors.initials: AJ
authors.lastname: McAdam
authors.affiliation: Center for Vaccine Development and Department of Pediatrics, University of Maryland, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
authors.forename: Marcela F
authors.initials: MF
authors.lastname: Pasetti
authors.affiliation: Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, University of California, Irvine, California, USA.
authors.forename: Rozanne M
authors.initials: RM
authors.lastname: Sandri-Goldin
authors.affiliation: Department of Molecular Biology, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, USA.
authors.forename: Thomas
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Silhavy
authors.affiliation: Departments of Medicine and Microbiology and Immunology, Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, USA.
authors.forename: Louis
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Rice
authors.affiliation: Department of Medicine, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA.
authors.forename: Jo-Anne H
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Young
authors.affiliation: Department of Molecular Biology, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, USA.
authors.forename: Thomas
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Shenk