Sculier J P
Service de Médecine Interne, Institut Jules Bordet, Centre des Tumeurs de l'ULB, Bruxelles.
Rev Med Brux. 2004 Feb;25(1):51-4.
The Impact Factor (IF) is a bibliometric tool that has become very popular among the academic people. It has been developed by the publishers of scientific reviews to determine the impact of their journal among the scientific and medical community. It is based on the following principle: more often are cited the articles of a journal, more often is that journal read and thus sold. Various secondary applications have been performed with the IF, including the evaluation of the academic curriculum of a scientist or of a research group. That approach is however not validated, a recent methodological study having demonstrated a lack of good correlation between the IF of a given review and the quality scores of its published articles.
影响因子（IF）是一种文献计量工具，在学术界非常流行。它由科学评论的出版商开发，用于确定其期刊在科学和医学界的影响力。它基于以下原则：一本期刊的文章被引用的频率越高，该期刊被阅读并因此被销售的频率就越高。影响因子有各种次要应用，包括对科学家或研究小组学术履历的评估。然而，这种方法并未得到验证，最近的一项方法学研究表明，某一特定评论的影响因子与其发表文章的质量得分之间缺乏良好的相关性。
