Peleg Roni, Shvartzman Pesach
Department of Family Medicine, Sial Family Medicine and Primary Care Research Center, Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel.
J Am Board Fam Med. 2006 Nov-Dec;19(6):633-6. doi: 10.3122/jabfm.19.6.633.
Academic institutions weigh the research contribution of family physicians and take this factor into account when determining eligibility for the candidates' promotion. Among other parameters, these institutions consider the journals in which family physicians publish. In this respect, the impact factor (IF) has gained a foothold as one of the most accepted means to measure this contribution. The IF may be a measure of the main importance of a scientific journal. IF has a huge, but controversial, influence on the perception and evaluation of published scientific research. It is important for family physicians to understand and be aware of the importance of the IF and the way it is calculated. The IF is one consideration in the decision-making process of a researcher as to where to publish because the IF of most family medicine journals is less than 2.0. Thus publication in these journals might not yield the proper "score" for academic promotion in many institutions. On the other hand, publication in journals with higher IF that are not necessarily widely read by primary care physicians could result in a small impact of their findings on direct patient care.
学术机构衡量家庭医生的研究贡献，并在确定候选人晋升资格时考虑这一因素。在其他参数中，这些机构会考虑家庭医生发表论文的期刊。在这方面，影响因子（IF）已成为衡量这一贡献的最被广泛接受的手段之一。影响因子可能是衡量科学期刊主要重要性的一个指标。影响因子对已发表科学研究的认知和评价有着巨大但存在争议的影响。对于家庭医生来说，理解并意识到影响因子的重要性及其计算方式很重要。影响因子是研究人员决定在何处发表论文时的一个考虑因素，因为大多数家庭医学期刊的影响因子低于2.0。因此，在这些期刊上发表论文可能在许多机构中无法获得学术晋升的合适“分数”。另一方面，在影响因子较高但不一定被初级保健医生广泛阅读的期刊上发表论文，可能导致他们的研究结果对直接患者护理的影响较小。
