Un éditorial du Journal of Cell Biology de décembre remet fortement en question la valeur des facteurs d’impact de Thomson scientific.
Leur conclusion :
"Just as scientists would not accept the findings in a scientific paper without seeing the primary data, so should they not rely on Thomson Scientific’s impact factor, which is based on hidden data."
Rossner M, Van Epps H, Hill E. Show me the data. J Cell Biol. 2007 December;179(6):1091-1092. Available from: http://dx.doi.org/10.1083/jcb.200711140.
Et Thomson Scientific a répondu aux accusation en détail, cf. mon billet : http://www.enroweb.com/blogsciences/index.php?2008/01/11/251