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Measuring impact

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The Impact Factor

The impact factor was created to help librarians select journals for their readers in the library. In some senses am is describing our vision of the world, says O'Neill. The original idea came from a man called eugene garfield who wanted to create an easier way to find out what journals were most popular among libraries.

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