@sparc The impact factors are the sympton of a culture favouring quantity and aiming for prestige rather than openness, collaboration and reproducibility. Culture change goes slow and that is fine, but what is lacking is academic leadership speaking out in very explicit ways, feeling responsible for following up on their signing of #DORA, and vocally supporting researchers and librarians that do want to change.

@sparc Impact factors always have been dubious. However, when you are backtracing in the literature Web of Science is great. So I am not sure though how impact factors became a thing tho.