Clarivate to stop counting citations to retracted articles in journals’ impact factors
Clarivate will no longer include citations to and from retracted papers when calculating journal impact factors, the company announced today. The change comes after some have wondered over the years whether citations to retracted papers should count toward a journal’s impact factor, a controversial yet closely watched metric that measures how often others cite papers … Continue reading Clarivate to stop counting citations to retracted articles in journals’ impact factors