The elephant in the room: impact factor
2026/06/15 by Alex Eve, James Briscoe · 4 voices
Decision Sciences · Medicine · Environmental Science · #Academic Publishing and Open Access #Biotechnology and Related Fields #Health, Environment, Cognitive Aging
paper · doi:10.1242/dev.205838
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Summary: This Editorial offers an honest look at impact factor trends in developmental biology, explains how Development serves its community, and makes the case that sustaining developmental biology journals is a shared responsibility.
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- As Editor of @dev-journal.bsky.social I get asked "What are you doing about your impact factor?" In our new editorial we say: Ask not what Dev can do for the impact factor. Ask what you can do for D [bsky, 66 points, 0 comments]
- Journal impact factors were released yesterday. In our latest @dev-journal.bsky.social Editorial, @jamesbriscoe.bsky.social and I discuss how we are all architects of impact, highlighting that measur [bsky, 44 points, 0 comments]
- The elephant in the room: impact factor @amjeve.uk & @jamesbriscoe.bsky.social offer an honest look at impact factor trends in #DevBio, explain how Development serves its community, & make the case [bsky, 10 points, 0 comments]
- Development 誌は折々にEditorialを発信しています。今回は、impact factor偏重の傾向に抗するために研究者ができる具体的な提案が示されています（Box 2だけでもご覧ください）。発生生物学に貢献してきた学術誌としての矜持を示した、率直かつ建設的なメッセージです。 doi.org/10.1242/dev.... [bsky, 0 points, 1 comments]
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