Garfield E
Institute for Scientific Information & Publisher-The Scientist, 3501 Market Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA.
Croat Med J. 2000 Dec;41(4):368-74.
The impact factor has become the subject of widespread controversy. It has gradually developed to mean both journal and author impact. The emphasis on impact factors obscures the main purpose of bibliographic databases created at the Institute for Scientific Information. I will here show how two of these databases, Journal Citation Reports and the Journal Performance Indicators, can be used to study scientific journals and the articles they publish, as well as the evolution of scientific fields.
影响因子已成为广泛争议的主题。它逐渐发展为既代表期刊影响力，也代表作者影响力。对影响因子的强调掩盖了科学信息研究所创建的文献数据库的主要目的。在此我将展示如何利用其中两个数据库，即《期刊引证报告》和《期刊绩效指标》，来研究科学期刊及其发表的文章，以及科学领域的发展演变。
