{"id":124,"date":"2015-10-17T00:08:02","date_gmt":"2015-10-16T23:08:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/eimertuite\/?p=124"},"modified":"2015-10-17T00:10:07","modified_gmt":"2015-10-16T23:10:07","slug":"beware-the-impact-factor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/eimertuite\/2015\/10\/17\/beware-the-impact-factor\/","title":{"rendered":"Beware the impact factor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/nmat\/journal\/v12\/n2\/full\/nmat3566.html\" target=\"_blank\">Beware the impact factor<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Nature Materials (Editorial) 2013, 12, 89<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333399\">The journal impact factor is a good predictor of the quality of journals as measured by citations to primary research articles. It is, however, a poor indicator of citations to specific papers or of the future performance of individual researchers.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beware the impact factor Nature Materials (Editorial) 2013, 12, 89 The journal impact factor is a good predictor of the quality of journals as measured by citations to primary research articles. It is, however, a poor indicator of citations to specific papers or of the future performance of individual researchers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4545,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-research","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/eimertuite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/eimertuite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/eimertuite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/eimertuite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4545"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/eimertuite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/eimertuite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":125,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/eimertuite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124\/revisions\/125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/eimertuite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/eimertuite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/eimertuite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}