Technology and Innovation Has Made Impact Factor Redundant—Better Alternatives Are Here to Thrive

Emerging alternatives to the impact factor

This paper offers an overview of the history of the impact factor as a measure for scholarly merit; a summary of frequent criticisms of the impact factor's calculation and usage; and a framework for understanding some of the leading alternatives to the impact factor.

Are Product Innovation and Flexible Technology Complements?

This paper analyzes the interdependence between the firms’ technology choice and innovation. Previous literature argues that product flexibility and product innovation are complements, because flexible machines handle a large variety of product designs with low changeover times. In a model where technology is chosen before uncertain demand is realized, we show that long-run technology, by impos...

Clinics has an Impact Factor

Our first Impact Factor comes five years after the first CLINICS issue circulated and we are extremely happy to inform our readers that Clinics achieved IF = 1.591, which is the third highest ever for any Brazilian Journal. This IF was achieved with 21% of autocites, perfectly within the ethical limits set by ISI-Thomson. One other piece of good news is the fact that slightly more than 80% of t...

Using Handheld Devices as Alternatives to Inspire Students Innovation in Designing New Information Technology

In this paper, we propose a new learning way under a wireless environment. A bird searching system for bird-watchers is proposed to help students’ creation. By utilizing the back-propagation model to train the neural network, we provide a graphical bird information searching system. While opening the feature selection interface, users can click or drag-and-drop the features according to the bir...

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