How does Faculty of 1000 Biology compare with Impact factors and Citation scores?
Impact Factors While impact factors arguably identify the most noteworthy journals, they cannot easily identify the most noteworthy individual papers. Nevertheless, the quality of a research paper is often judged by the impact factor of the journal in which it appears – although not every paper in a high impact journal is interesting, and, more to the point, not every interesting paper is published in a high impact journal. By contrast Faculty of 1000 Biology rates individual papers according to their merit, irrespective of where they are published. More than a third of papers awarded the top “Exceptional” rating by members of Faculty of 1000 Biology are from journals other than Nature, Science and Cell. Conversely, between 20% and 25% of eligible papers from these three journals are not recommended by members of Faculty of 1000 Biology.
