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The Journal Impact Factor is under attack - use the CAPCI factor instead.

Eleftherios P Diamandis^1,2

¹Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, ON, Canada. ediamandis@mtsinai.on.ca.

|January 17, 2017

Summary

This summary is machine-generated.

The widely used Journal Impact Factor (JIF) should be renamed to "Citation Average Per Citable Item" (CAPCI) factor. This change aims to reduce misinterpretations and misuses of this bibliometric indicator.

Area of Science:

Bibliometrics
Scholarly Communication

Background:

The Journal Impact Factor (JIF) is a widely discussed bibliometric.
Recent trends show increased criticism and removal of JIF by some publishers.

Keywords:

CAPCI factor Journal impact factor Journal quality Scientific impact

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Misuses of JIF are prevalent in academic and publishing circles.