I suppose this is good, even if I can't take Thomson stats seriously. Perhaps it will spur BMC to improve their turnaround time. - Neil Saunders
It kinda bugs me when OA journals make a big deal out of their Impact Factors... - Bill Hooker
Bill, why? Impact Factors have serious disadvantages... but any reason why OA journals should eschew them particularly? Other than the fact that we really want to like OA journals and everything they do? :) - Heather Piwowar
I guess it's because we'd like OA journals to be forging a brave new world, free from the flaws of the old ways of publishing: for example, since impact factors are rubbish, why not just disregard them? Unfortunately, the OA journals need some metric to publicise their success and we have nothing better. - Neil Saunders
What Neil said. I'd like to see everyone ditch the IF, but especially OA journals. OK, OK, if you wanna get all logical it doesn't make much sense. :-P - Bill Hooker
The IF has been thoroughly discredited, especially over the last 7 or 8 months. People still using such a useless figure are only disqualifying themselves - the evidence from numerous sources is just overwhelming. - Björn Brembs
