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SAGE is pleased to announce a strong performance across its journals portfolio in the recently released 2013 Journal Citation Reports® […]

Publishing in a high-impact journal carries the implicit promise that somehow an individual article also will be highly cited. But the proof of this logic remains unsubstantiated. How about measuring career impact more than journal impact? The authors offer one option they’ve developed.

Why does it matter whether you study or work at the sociology department that comes first, 12th or 89th in a ranking? Why does it matter whether the journal you publish in is included and ranked in a certain index, or not? Let us know your thoughts.

The perceived importance of a scientific paper should reflect the deepest wisdom of the scientific community, argues Nikolaus Kriegeskorte, rather than the judgments of three anonymous peer reviewers. So where does that leave ‘impact factor’?

The signatories of the San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment continue to explore ways to dethrone the reigning monarch of research assessment, the impact factor.

The Web of Science and its corresponding Journal Impact Factor are inadequate for an understanding of the impact of scholarly work from developing regions, argues Juan Pablo Alperin. The altmetrics community should engage with scholars from developing regions to ensure the new metrics do not continue to cater to well-known and well-established networks.

SAGE is pleased to announce a strong performance across its journals portfolio in the recently released 2012 Journal Citation Reports® […]

SAGE is pleased to announce strong performance across its journals portfolio in the recently released 2011 Journal Citation Reports® (Thomson […]

SAGE is pleased to announce 27% growth in the number of titles receiving Impact Factors with 385 journals now indexed […]

Business and Society (BAS), peer-reviewed and published quarterly, is the official journal of the International Association for Business and Society, […]