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      The Impact Factor Game : It is time to find a better way to assess the scientific literature

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      Author(s): The PLoS Medicine Editors
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      Journal: PLoS Medicine
      Publisher: Public Library of Science

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          The PLoS Medicine editors argue that we need a better measure than the impact factor for assessing the biomedical literature.

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          Journal ID (nlm-ta): PLoS Med
          Journal ID (publisher-id): pmed
          Title: PLoS Medicine
          Publisher: Public Library of Science (San Francisco, USA )
          ISSN (Print): 1549-1277
          ISSN (Electronic): 1549-1676
          Publication date (Print): June 2006
          Publication date (Electronic): 6 June 2006
          Volume: 3
          Issue: 6
          Electronic Location Identifier: e291
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          DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0030291
          PMC ID: 1475651
          PubMed ID: 16749869
          SO-VID: 8ea2ef06-617a-42b0-9247-b6986c977ac2
          Copyright © Copyright: © 2006 The PLoS Medicine Editors. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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          Subject: Editorial
          Subject: Other
          Subject: Science Policy
          Subject: Medical Journals
          Subject: Editorial Policies (Including Conflicts of Interest)

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