Abdullgaffar B
Department of Histopathology and Cytopathology, Dubai Hospital, Dubai, UAE.
Cytopathology. 2012 Oct;23(5):320-4. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2303.2011.00950.x. Epub 2012 Jan 9.
B. AbdullGaffar Impact factor in cytopathology journals: what does it reflect and how much does it matter?
To study the trends of impact factor (IF) in four cytopathology journals. To investigate the factors that might influence IF in cytopathology literature and whether IF has any impact on cytopathology practice.
The IFs of four cytopathology journals were searched from 2005 to 2009. The IFs and their relationships with the types and number of publications, publishers, the official societies, readership, the quality of their contents, the topics covered and the levels of evidence were compared.
Cancer Cytopathology (CC) had the highest IF. Acta Cytologica (AC) had the lowest IF, which appeared to be in decline. Cytopathology (C) and Diagnostic Cytopathology (DC) had a slow but steady increase in their IF. Components that might influence these differences could include the category and the society of the journal, targeted readers and certain types of publications. Publishers, the number of publications, the types of topics covered and the levels of evidence probably have no major effect on IF.
IF has its own benefits and original applications. IF is a quantitative measure that does not reflect the levels of evidence in cytopathology journals. IF should not be abandoned because it might encourage competition between cytopathology journals, but it should not dictate their contents.
B. 阿卜杜勒加法尔 细胞病理学期刊的影响因子：它反映了什么以及有多重要？
研究四种细胞病理学期刊的影响因子（IF）趋势。调查可能影响细胞病理学文献中IF的因素，以及IF对细胞病理学实践是否有任何影响。
检索2005年至2009年四种细胞病理学期刊的IF。比较IF及其与出版物类型和数量、出版商、官方学会、读者群、内容质量、涵盖主题和证据水平的关系。
《癌症细胞病理学》（CC）的IF最高。《细胞学报》（AC）的IF最低，且似乎在下降。《细胞病理学》（C）和《诊断细胞病理学》（DC）的IF呈缓慢但稳定的增长。可能影响这些差异的因素包括期刊的类别和学会、目标读者以及某些类型的出版物。出版商、出版物数量、涵盖的主题类型和证据水平可能对IF没有重大影响。
IF有其自身的益处和原始应用。IF是一种定量指标，不能反映细胞病理学期刊中的证据水平。IF不应被摒弃，因为它可能会促进细胞病理学期刊之间的竞争，但它不应决定期刊的内容。
