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Liu Xue-li, Wang Mei-ying, Zhang Lin, Wang Pu and Zhou Zhi-xin

Liu Xue-li, Wang Mei-ying and Zhou Zhi-xin are in the Henan Research Center for Science Journals, and Wang Pu is in the Management Institute, Xinxiang Medical University, Xinxiang 453003, Henan Province, P. R. China and Zhang Lin is in the Department of Management and Economics, North China University of Water Conservancy and Electric Power, Zhengzhou 450011, Henan Province,P. R. China.

ABSTRACT.   Impact factor, as an important indicator for the evaluation of research performance, has always been the concern of scientists and scientometricians. For a long time, many Chinese researchers have believed that impact factor is used as an indicator to evaluate research performance only in South Asian countries and regions, especially in China. In this article, we study how impact factor is presented on the websites of medical journals indexed in Web of Science (WoS) in 2009, and examine the number of articles about impact factor published between 2001 and 2010 in the WoS and Scopus databases. Finally, we summarize the attitude of researchers in various countries towards impact factor. We conclude that impact factor is not only a concern in South Asia but also has a profound influence in Europe and other regions. It is widely used for academic evaluation in various fields. Therefore, infatuation with impact factor is a global phenomenon that has gradually spread to other regions, thus gaining more importance.

Keywords:  China, global infatuation, impact factor, medical journals, research performance evaluation, South Asia.