What happened to the impact factor metric in ResearchGate?

Juan D. Machin-Mastromatteo @Juan_Machin-Mastromatteo

08 August 2016 1 1K Report

Recently, the impact factor dissapeared in ResearchGate, I can't find anything about why, are they still updating the impact factors according to the latest JCR or they are dropping its use as a metric in the site?

Juan D. Machin-Mastromatteo

That metric was quite useful in the sense that it aggregated the impact factors of all the articles published in journals with impact factors. For example: if I published an article in a journal with an impact factor of 2 and in another of 1, then I had a 3...

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