China's chemists should avoid the Vanity Fair

[...] articles in journals with high impact factors are judged to appeal most to readers, but not every paper published in a high-impact-factor journal is high quality, and papers published in lower-ranked journals are never worthless. [...] the impact factor of Nanotechnology Letters was 9.99 in 20...

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Published inNature (London) Vol. 476; no. 7360; p. 253
Main Author Wang, Nai-Xing
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published England Nature Publishing Group 18.08.2011
Subjects
Chemistry
Chemistry - standards
China
Journal Impact Factor
Nanotechnology
NMR
Nuclear magnetic resonance
R&D
Research & development
Research Personnel - standards
Research Personnel - statistics & numerical data
Time Factors
China
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Summary:[...] articles in journals with high impact factors are judged to appeal most to readers, but not every paper published in a high-impact-factor journal is high quality, and papers published in lower-ranked journals are never worthless. [...] the impact factor of Nanotechnology Letters was 9.99 in 2010, but we should not judge this journal twice as valuable as the Journal of Organic Chemistry, with an impact factor of 4.21 in 2010. [...] some researchers in nanotechnology have not used mainstream techniques such as nuclear magnetic resonance, mass spectrography, infrared or ultraviolet spectroscopy, or X-ray diffraction.
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ISSN:0028-0836
1476-4687
DOI:10.1038/476253a