Robert Tijan: "we want to kill the journal impact factor"

Submitted by Alexis on Fri, 2015-08-14 23:41

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Robert Tijan, outgoing president of HHMI, comments on one of the goals of the eLife team in an interview with Science:
(...) we want to kill the journal impact factor. We tried to prevent people who do the impact factors from giving us one. They gave us one anyway a year earlier than they should have. Don't ask me what it is because I truly don't want to know and don't care.

http://news.sciencemag.org/funding/2015/08/qa-outgoing-hhmi-chief-refle…