It is interesting. For me, many of those who have made the greatest impact during the pandemic have been those working long hours front-line in PPE with no time to scratch let alone publish. Citations might be everything in academia, but they don’t show the whole picture.
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Whatabout those working on the frontline and publishing during their rest days? Asking for a friend...
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Narrator voice: it wasn't. (Fun fact: citations to letters and notes are in the numerator, but the publications themselves are not in the denominator (and that's how NEJM gets its high JIF)).
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Impact Factor has always been a terrible metric b/c it’s a (sort of) mean for a distribution of citations is skewed heavily left (not normal distribution). https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/062109v2 … So it arguably couldn't get any worse ;-)
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COVID-19 is also far from the first trendy topic to get far more citations than work of similar quality on other fields. Any teenager on the internet knows more replies doesn’t necessarily mean you made a good post. Yet that’s how academics measure successful publications?

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