Guideline Impact Factor – A new indicator to assess journals cited in medical guidelines

V. Aman, Nikita Sorgatz
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Despite of its many limitations, the Journal Impact Factor (JIF) is widely used to evaluate research institutions and individual researchers. Using references from 41 German medical guidelines we show that clinical relevance as assessed by guideline authors is uncorrelated to the JIF suggesting that a journal’s clinical relevance is independent of its JIF. As a consequence, evaluations solely relying on the JIF end up under-valuing clinically important research. We therefore propose a Guideline Impact Factor (GLIF) quantifying the relevance of journals for medical guideline development as an independent quality criterion for journals.
指南影响因子——评估医学指南中引用期刊的新指标
尽管期刊影响因子(JIF)存在诸多局限性,但它已被广泛用于评价研究机构和研究人员个人。利用41份德国医学指南的参考文献,我们发现指南作者评估的临床相关性与JIF无关,这表明期刊的临床相关性独立于其JIF。因此,仅仅依赖JIF的评估最终会低估具有临床重要性的研究。因此,我们提出一个指南影响因子(GLIF),量化期刊与医学指南制定的相关性,作为期刊的独立质量标准。
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