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Nature 415, 731-732 (14 February 2002) | doi:10.1038/415731a
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Your Opinion article "Errors in Citation Statistics" (Nature 415, 101; 2002) identified how journal impact factors compiled by the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) are sometimes included as variables in mathematical formulae and directly influence funding decisions by individual research departments. Such use is inappropriate and counterproductive.
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