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Ronán Michael Conroy

It's not a serious contender. Google has too many duplicates and mistakes in its database to calculate an accurate score

Harry Barton Essel

Interesting Prof. but can you give us any proof on your statement?

Bernard Montoneri

Dear Professor,

Any papers or data on this? I would like to know whether Google-based Impact Factor is reliable. I saw that many journals are looking for an alternative to Thomson Reuters. Example:

https://www.scirp.org/journal/Journalcitationdetails.aspx?JournalID=1573

Thank you