Retrovirology
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  EditorialImpact factor, H index, peer comparisons, and Retrovirology: is it time to individualize citation metrics?Kuan-Teh Jeang  National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA  author email corresponding author email
Retrovirology 2007,
4:42doi:10.1186/1742-4690-4-42 Abstract
There is a natural tendency to judge a gift by the attractiveness of its wrapping. In some respect, this reflects current mores of measuring the gravitas of a scientific paper based on the journal cover in which the work appears. Most journals have an impact factor (IF) which some proudly display on their face page. Although historically journal IF has been a convenient quantitative shorthand, has its (mis)use contributed to inaccurate perceptions of the quality of scientific articles? Is now the time that equally convenient but more individually accurate metrics be adopted? | 
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