Clarivate to Stop Counting Citations to Retracted Articles in Journals’ Impact Factors - Stephen's Lighthouse

Clarivate to stop counting citations to retracted articles in journals’ impact factors - Stephen's Lighthouse

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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 from that journal. For many institutions, impact factors have become a proxy f…