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Impact factors and journal prices: no apparent correlation Bill Hooker has used Elsevier data to show that there is "no apparent correlation between IF [impact factor] and price." Excerpt:
Comment. Also see White and Creaser 2007, which showed little correlation between price and impact factor. Bergstrom and Bergstrom 2004 showed that journal prices are either unrelated to citation impact or inversely related to it:
Update (3/10/09). Also see Part 2 of Bill's investigation. Excerpt:
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