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Counting on citations: a flawed way to measure quality.

Walter G, Bloch S, Hunt G, Fisher K.

Rivendell Unit, Child Adolescent and Family Psychiatric Services, Thomas Walker Hospital, Concord West, NSW, Australia. gwalter@mail.usyd.edu.au

The journal Impact Factor and citation counts are misconstrued and misused as measures of scientific quality. Articles must be read in order to judge their quality. We have introduced a system, which may be easily replicated, to identify the best articles published in a journal.

PMID: 12633486 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]