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Author(s) -
Jacobs Howy
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
embo reports
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 4.584
H-Index - 184
eISSN - 1469-3178
pISSN - 1469-221X
DOI - 10.1038/embor.2009.205
Subject(s) - salary , citation , government (linguistics) , academic freedom , battle , de facto , political science , law , sociology , history , higher education , philosophy , linguistics , archaeology
The year is 2045 and the Pacific Union will tax scientists according to their impact factor. Should scientists have tackled the misuse of this ubiquitous metric 40 years ago when there was still time?