Impact

One of the official purposes of my trip to Istanbul was to attend the editorial board meeting of a journal.

For those who are not familiar with business of this kind, it is the only time in a year when all the ones actively participating in an international publication sit around, review the operation, and have a while of brainstorming on how to make the thing better.

By “better”, nowadays people inevitably mean a higher impact factor.

The one who invented this gigget was a real genius. The principle of calculation is simple: You count the number of times people cite the paper from a journal, and adjust for the number of full paper published by the journal.

As a simple and sometimes naïve nephrologist, I found the discussion highly entertaining – if not educational.