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ArticleJournal of the Medical Library Association : JMLA2021

Relationship between an editor in chief's commentary publications and the impact factor of cardiovascular medicine journals.

Alex Salazar, Michael Joseph Berry

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Article in Journal of the Medical Library Association : JMLA, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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2 authors.

Alex Salazarsalaas17@wfu.edu, Department of Health and Exercise Science, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC.
Michael Joseph Berryberry@wfu.edu, Professor of Health and Exercise Science, Department of Health and Exercise Science, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5798-1861

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Journal impact factor (IF) inflation is suggested as a problem resulting from commentaries published by the editors in chief (EiCs) of their respective journals. However, it is unclear whether this is a systemic problem across the top thirty cardiovascular medicine journals. Therefore, the purpose of this investigation was to examine the relationship between the number of commentaries written by an EiC and their journal's IF and Eigenfactor (Ef). Utilizing Spearman rank partial correlations controlling for length of service as the EiC, significant moderate correlations were found between the number of commentaries and the number of first-author commentaries by the EiC and the IF of their journal (r=0.568,

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Journal Impact FactorPeriodicals as Topiccardiologyeditorial commentEigenfactorimpact factor

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PMID34629975
PMCPMC8485958

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