很有意思的比喻。一个影响因子专家对影响因子的批判。

I did not know of these when I sent out the Chronicle article almost as a practical joke to ruffle a lot of feathers.

For myself I mentally signed the DORA declaration a long time ago  at least as the impact factor has been  used for evaluative purposes.  Thus, for me, this all is beating on a horse that has long been dead—basically killed by Seglen in the 1990s.   For some odd reason, I have become to regarded as leading expert on the impact factor, and editors always give me impact factor papers to referee.  It is hard to referee papers, whose mathematics are incomprehensible and whose premises are false.  You cannot impose your views, because that would be imposing censorship, and everybody has a right to be stupid, including myself.  (My life has been based on this premise).  These articles are serious efforts and part of a major controversy, and the argument needs to be aired, even though I think it is silly.  I call all this stuff “artifacts of the impact factor industry.”  Now if I ever get more impact factor articles to referee, I can ask the authors to take a position in respect to DORA.  That should allow some fresh air to enter their thinking.