Björn Brembs, Katherine Button, and Marcus Munafò argue and provide facts in their paper “Deep Impact: Unintended consequences of journal rank”
- “using journal rank as an assessment tool is bad scientific practice”
- “…, the data lead us to argue that any journal rank (not only the currently-favored Impact Factor) would have this negative impact.”
Cathy O’Neil analyzed the findings in her blog, interesting reading and another argument that we should not use numerical indicators for qualitative evaluations