A new light on Impact Factors

Impact Factors are not a measure of the science; their mis-use has made a mess of publishing, reading, and evaluating good science.

Read an overview:

http://www.nature.com/news/beat-it-impact-factor-publishing-elite-turns-against-controversial-metric-1.20224

Or read the original article:

http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2016/07/05/062109