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Nature 461, 470 (24 September 2009) | doi:10.1038/461470d; Published online 23 September 2009
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Overzealous use of decimal places has wrong kind of impact
J. M. D. Coey1
- School of Physics and Centre for Research on Adaptive Nanostructures and Nanodevices, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland
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Scientists teach students to evaluate critically the significance of their measurements, and to eschew meaningless decimal places thrown up when pocket calculators work out a quotient of two integers. So what are we to make of the recently released impact factors, including Nature's much advertised rating of '31.
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