Abstract
Bornmann (2017) suggests calculating confidence intervals (CIs) for Journal Impact Factors (IFs) by using a simplistic approximation of citation distributions to the Poisson distribution. We empirically demonstrate that his recommendation for obtaining CIs seems appropriate for low, but not for high impact journals.
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