Abstract
The impact factor of the Netherlands Heart Journal in 2013
Highlights
Impact factors of scientific journals divide the number of received citations during a year by the number of papers published in the past; normally the 2 years preceding the year of the citation count
To authors! Editors have become active in pushing the impact factors of their own journals in a way that starts to overstep the bounds of reasonable ethical behaviour [11, 12]
The founder/owner of the Institute for Scientific Information, Eugene Garfield, has repeatedly stated that it is nonsense to calculate impact factors with an accuracy of three decimals, when it concerns, in general, far less than 1000 published papers
Summary
Impact factors of scientific journals divide the number of received citations during a (citation) year by the number of papers published in the past; normally the 2 years preceding the year of the citation count. The first presumption is, more attractive to frequently cited authors.
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