Are journal rankings distorting science?
...her journal rankings (known as impact factors) are distorting publishing and science. The impact factor is a me... week warns that the popularity of this ranking is distorting the fundamental character of journals, forcing them to focus more and more on citations and less on ......that shell composition played virtually no role in distorting the bivalve fossil record, echoing the findings of a related study that Kidwell published in the Feb. 11, 2005, issue of the journal Science. That study showed, contrary to longstanding expectations, that clams with durable shells were not better rep...