Diamandis Eleftherios P
Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, ON, Canada.
Department of Clinical Biochemistry, University Health Network, Toronto, ON, Canada.
BMC Med. 2017 Jan 16;15(1):9. doi: 10.1186/s12916-016-0773-5.
The uses and misuses of the Journal Impact Factor (JIF) have been thoroughly discussed in the literature. A few years ago, I predicted that JIF would soon be replaced, while another colleague argued the opposite. Over the past few months, attacks on JIF have intensified, with some publishing organizations gradually removing the indicator from their journals' websites. Here, I argue that most, if not all of the misuses of JIF are related to its name. The word "impact" should be removed, since it implies an influential attribute, either for the journals, their published papers, or their authors. I propose instead the use of a new name, the "CAPCI factor", standing for Citation Average Per Citable Item, which accurately describes what is represented by this measure.
期刊影响因子（JIF）的使用与滥用在文献中已得到充分讨论。几年前，我曾预测JIF很快会被取代，而另一位同事则持相反观点。在过去几个月里，对JIF的抨击愈演愈烈，一些出版机构逐渐从其期刊网站上移除了该指标。在此，我认为JIF的大多数（如果不是全部的话）滥用都与其名称有关。“影响”一词应该去掉，因为它暗示了一种有影响力的属性，无论是对期刊、其发表的论文还是其作者而言。相反，我提议使用一个新名称，即“CAPCI因子”，代表“每可引用项目的平均引用次数”，它准确地描述了这一指标所代表的内容。
