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Impact-factor rewards affect Spanish research

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In Spain, as in Finland1, publication of research reports in journals with a high impact factor has since 1989 officially been part of the national system for evaluating researchers' productivity. But unlike the Finnish system, the Spanish system rewards individuals rather than departments or institutions.

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  1. Department of Library and Information Science, School of Library and Information Science, University of Granada, Granada, 18071, Spain

    Evaristo Jiménez-Contreras, Emilio Delgado López-Cózar & Rafael Ruiz-Pérez

  2. Former director, Department of Biocatalysis, National Commission for the Evaluation of Research Activity (CNEAI), Institute of Catalysis, CSIC, Madrid, 28049, Spain

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Jiménez-Contreras, E., Delgado López-Cózar, E., Ruiz-Pérez, R. et al. Impact-factor rewards affect Spanish research. Nature 417, 898 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1038/417898b

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