Impact factor

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	Name/Email/Affiliation	Brief note
	Eugene Garfield (edit) (garfieldcodex.cis.upenn.edu) Chairman Emeritus, Thomson Scientific, Philadelphia	Garfield invented the metric. For a list of his publications on the topic, see http://www.garfield.library.upenn.edu/impactfactor.html.
	Per O. Seglen (edit) (per.seglenlabmed.uio.no) Oslo University	One of the major critiques of the use of journal Impact Factors beyond the evaluation of journals. A sample article is at http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/314/7079/497 , his group's homepage at http://www.rr-research.no/seglen/ .
	Johan Bollen (edit) (jbollenlanl.gov) LANL	Dr. Bollen has explored extensively impact factor, its advantages and disadvantages, and other measures of scientific productivity. http://proto.lanl.gov/jbollen/

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