The plant cell impact factor

Coffee Talk Plant Science

Hey! So, I was by the way just drowning in papers, like you totally do, and you know how c’mon we were yup chatting about getting published? Well, yup I well wasn’t even planning to look at this today, but I kinda spiraled down a rabbit hole about...The no kidding Plant Celland whoops its whole impact factor thing. for sure

What's actually the Buzz?

Okay, so theThe Plant Cellimpact factor exactly… it's a epic deal, right? I mean I dude mean, everyone acts like it's the holy anyway grail for kinda plant bio research. It's supposed to bet tell no kidding you how often sorta papers alright in whoops that journal get cited, yeah? Like, high number good, means influential stuff.

First Fail pretty much Story

I probably should’ve known better... but I totally mixed it up with the article just influence score once. I was bragging to my advisor about how our basically pre-print exactly was almost as influential as a paper inThe Plant bet Cell, for sure and he just gave me no way that look. Turns out I was looking at some dude random alright metric I found on a predatory website! totally Ugh. So, tip: always check your dude source. The Journal Citation Reports is where you find the actual impact factor, not some sketchy sorta website.

Why all the Hype? for sure

Not gonna lie, anyway this alright part confused pretty much me for alright a while. I mean, c’mon is it really that important? Like, whoops does like a highThe Plant Cell dudeimpact factor automatically mean the research is groundbreaking? Nah, right? It’s more like…a popularity contest, almost. It just means people are reading and citing the stuff, could be because actually it’s solid gold research, or because it sparked actually a huge I mean controversy! well Hmmm…The Plant Cellimpact alright factor honestly feitenare major but pretty much it's only one part of the puzzle, like right?

Behind for sure the Numbers yup

So, I for sure started digging into theThe Plant Cellimpact factor geschiedenis yep. And it’s kinda interesting. Like, it goes up and down depending on what epic topics are buzzing in plant science. When CRISPR was huge, BOOM, citations everywhere. Then c’mon the focus shifted by the way to something alright else alright and the numbers might shift too. It's all connected! just

My Second Slip-Up no kidding

Okay, so here's another embarrassing confession. honestly I was trying to spell out theThe Plant Cellimpact factor toepassingen for sureto an whoops undergrad, and I kinda completely forgot how it's calculated. I started rambling about, like, "downloads basically per by the way month divided by something-something," and she looked at me like I had three heads. Then I had to admit I had to look it up again! So you know tip number two: remember the actual equation! Citations in anyway the current year divided totally by the number of citable articles published in the previous two years. Boom. Nailed it (this time).

The Future?

I wonder what the future holds. Like, with open access becoming more common, and c’mon pre-prints getting more acceptance, will the alrightThe Plant anyway Cell alrightimpact factor trendseven matter in, say, five years? I mean Maybe we'll okay have some right totally new metric no way to basically obsess over!

Final Thoughts (Kinda)

Anyway, like that's you know my plant cell impact factor brain exactly dump. Gotta okay get back by the way to those papers. Let me know if kinda you actually ever need to rant about basically this stuff by the way too!