{"id":20138,"date":"2022-07-03T13:55:17","date_gmt":"2022-07-03T11:55:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/?p=20138"},"modified":"2022-07-03T13:55:17","modified_gmt":"2022-07-03T11:55:17","slug":"the-lancet-200","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/sciencesurf\/2022\/07\/the-lancet-200\/","title":{"rendered":"The Lancet >200?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/retractionwatch.com\/2022\/06\/28\/the-lancet-more-than-doubles-its-impact-factor-eclipsing-nejm-for-the-first-time-ever\/\">Retractionwatch<\/a> reports<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Lancet<\/em>\u2018s impact factor increased from 79.3 in last year\u2019s report to 202.7.\u00a0<em>NEJM<\/em>\u2019s impact factor nearly doubled as well, from 91.2 to 176.1.\u00a0\u00a0Five other journals also had impact factors greater than 100 for the first time, and also published a lot of COVID-19 research: the\u00a0<em>Journal of the American Medical Association<\/em>,\u00a0<em>Lancet Respiratory Medicine<\/em>,\u00a0<em>Nature Reviews Drug Discovery<\/em>,\u00a0<em>Nature Reviews Immunology<\/em>, and\u00a0<em>Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology<\/em>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Irrelevant numbers at all &#8211; even when used with 3 decimal points precision\u00a0 as in an email that I received this week<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Bildschirmfoto-2022-06-30-um-05.48.44.jpg\" data-rel=\"key-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-20147\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Bildschirmfoto-2022-06-30-um-05.48.44.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"619\" height=\"227\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>COVID-19 has clearly shown the craziness of our scientific rating system.<\/p>\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"bottom-note\">\n  <span class=\"mod1\">CC-BY-NC Science Surf , accessed 06.04.2026<\/span>\n <\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Retractionwatch reports Lancet\u2018s impact factor increased from 79.3 in last year\u2019s report to 202.7.\u00a0NEJM\u2019s impact factor nearly doubled as well, from 91.2 to 176.1.\u00a0\u00a0Five other journals also had impact factors greater than 100 for the first time, and also published a lot of COVID-19 research: the\u00a0Journal of the American Medical Association,\u00a0Lancet Respiratory Medicine,\u00a0Nature Reviews Drug &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/sciencesurf\/2022\/07\/the-lancet-200\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Lancet >200?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-note-worthy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20138"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20138\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20164,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20138\/revisions\/20164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}