Editorial
The meaning of the 'impact factor' in the case of an open-access journal
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Correspondence: Georgii A Alexandrov a_georgii@hotmail.com
Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Pyzhevsky 3, Moscow, Russia
Carbon Balance and Management 2011, 6:1 doi:10.1186/1750-0680-6-1
Published: 2 March 2011Abstract
The dominant model of journal evaluation emerged at the time when there were no open-access journals, and nobody has assessed yet whether this model is able to cope with this modern reality. This commentary attempts to fill the gaps in the common understanding of the role that 'impact factor' should play in evaluation of open-access journals.