Keynotes from the new editor-in-chief of acta cytologica and 'announcement of first time cytojournal impact factor for 2012 coincides with cytojournal decade celebration (2004-2013)'

摘要

I read with interest the editorial in Cy-tojournal by Shidham and DeMay [1] concerning their excitement at the announcement of the first-time Cytojournal impact factor (IF) for 2012.1 would like to correlate it with your editorial in Acta Cytologica [2]. I would like to share my reservations with you and highlight my skepticism at the excitement expressed by Drs. Shidham and DeMay. While I acknowledge that IF is one of the most commonly used bibliomet-ric parameters, it is not necessarily the only one or the best one. This citation indicator can be manipulated and skewed [3]. I therefore have several concerns to share with you and Drs. Shidham and DeMay.First, their statement 'The recently assigned IF of 1.2 announced during our decade celebration (2004-2013) is yet another additional parameter indicating journal quality' is not necessarily a genuine reflection of the quality of their journal. Journal quality is dictated by the quality of its contents and publications with clinical applicability [3].