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ArticleNature2021

Impact factor abandoned by Dutch university in hiring and promotion decisions.

Chris Woolston

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Article in Nature, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 16 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
16citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
–field-weighted citation impact
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

16 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

  1. Pooled it
  2. Quantifying research waste in ecology.Nature ecology & evolution · 2022
    Pooled it
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  6. The misalignment of incentives in academic publishing and implications for journal reform.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025
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  8. To dismantle structural racism in science, scientists need to learn how it works.Neuropsychopharmacology : official publication of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology · 2023
    Review
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  11. Transparent, Open, and Reproducible Prevention Science.Prevention science : the official journal of the Society for Prevention Research · 2022
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  14. Review
  15. Journal Impact Factor and Self-Citations.Archivum immunologiae et therapiae experimentalis · 2021
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author.

Chris Woolston

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

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Journal Impact FactorUniversitiesCareer MobilityHumansPersonnel SelectionCareersInstitutionsPolicy

Identifiers

What OpenQuestion holds

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Registered trials

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Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.