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The Impact Factor in the Journal Rankings
When Garfield came along way to create a bibliographic tool to follow ideas across the discipline and Garfield also suddenly realized he had something that could be used to gauge how well a journal was doing in terms of it being noticed by other journals. So when the impact factor began to play into the whole thing the commercial publishers began to realize that they had in mind in the hand the means to make intellectual and economic value converge. That's when the rankings of the journals began with three decimals because as Garfield said in one article we need that to have an unambiguous ranking of journals you know it's completely crazy. The modern publishers have been extremely good at on the one hand destroying the journal by
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