ASM Journals Eliminate Impact Factor Information from Journal Websites.
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).
Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
Arturo
A
Casadevall
American Society for Microbiology (ASM), Washington, DC, USA.
Stefano
S
Bertuzzi
Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, California, USA.
Michael J
MJ
Buchmeier
Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Chevy Chase, Maryland, USA, and Program in Molecular Medicine, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA.
Roger J
RJ
Davis
Department of Ecological Microbiology, University of Bayreuth, Bayreuth, Germany.
Harold
H
Drake
University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, Washington, USA.
Ferric C
FC
Fang
Department of Surgery, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
Jack
J
Gilbert
American Society for Microbiology (ASM), Washington, DC, USA.
Barbara M
BM
Goldman
Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.
Michael J
MJ
Imperiale
Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
Philip
P
Matsumura
Boston Children's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
Alexander J
AJ
McAdam
Center for Vaccine Development and Department of Pediatrics, University of Maryland, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
Marcela F
MF
Pasetti
Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, University of California, Irvine, California, USA.
Rozanne M
RM
Sandri-Goldin
Department of Molecular Biology, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, USA.
Thomas
T
Silhavy
Departments of Medicine and Microbiology and Immunology, Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, USA.
Louis
L
Rice
Department of Medicine, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA.
Jo-Anne H
JH
Young
Department of Molecular Biology, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, USA.
Thomas
T
Shenk