The report, issued in June 2008 by the International Math-
ematical Union (IMU) entitled Citation Statistics, is about the
use and misuse of citation data in the assessment of scientific re-
search. It says, further, that the research assessment must be done
using simple and objective methods. There are many more very
wrong ideas pour our mind when we think about impact index.
There is a important current structure of the index, which appears
to bring positive influence. Many journals have begun to make
all accepted papers online, which increases the exposure. We all
in the mathematical community should (not may) influence the
Thomson Company to change the system for mathematics and
create an IF suitable for mathematics. By merely counting the
frequency of citations per article and disregarding the prestige
of the citing journals, the impact factor becomes merely a metric
popularity, not of prestige.
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