D4N1CU5 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

Impact factor also has a lot to do with the size of the field that the journal is in. For example, Oceanography might be a small field with few journals, so if you publish in an oceanography journal with an impact factor of 1.0 or 2.0 that might still be the most prestigious journal in that field but you wouldn't say that the work is less valid because it wasn't in Science or Nature with their impact factor of 30-40 or whatever

D4N1CU5 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

I'd just like to point out that impact factor has nothing to do with the quality of the work contained in the journal. More prestigious journals like science and nature tend to have higher impact articles like, discovery of a new hormone, new hominid species, new kingdom of life etc. Showing that your experiment works in a different cell line to the last paper you published won't get you into science but it is still valid work.

nobagav (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

Ha... love the cliffhanger. Nice technique.

FSEffect (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

Just nit pickin, but the discussion of credability and bias seems out of place for something on risk management. Seems more suited for Nature of Science. But I guess it does flow better.

itCameFromEarth (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

Impact factor is pretty cool; kind of like how Google rates the quality of web pages based on the number of links it finds to those pages in other pages.well ok i found -"bioscience(dot)org/services/impact15(dot)htm"which is a list of the top 1500 journals in order of impact factor and "nature" and "science" are at the top... "energy environment" isn't even on the list, so it seems you are correct; it's articles must not be widely recognized as valid.Thanks for responding.

wonderingmind42 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

Go look up it's impact factor. Then compare that to Nature, Science, and the others I mention.

itCameFromEarth (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

So because a peer reviewed journal publishes papers with contrary views to your own on climate change then that journal is no longer credible... sounds like selective thinking based on preconceived biases to me.

iLikePokemons (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

With a 147 iq, you might as well put some of that intelligence toward your spelling. It can help show that you're as smart as you claim you are.

KID433321 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

i fell that i am smart? Amicans?well for one you can't spell =P

asdfhrvfsdu (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

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