Michael Taggart
Institute of Genetic Medicine, Newcastle University

https://doi.org/10.36866/pn.104.6a

At the Annual General Meeting of The Physiological Society, usually held in conjunction with the main scientific meeting, the attendees are given a summary of the activities in the previous year of each of The Society’s journals. This seems to always involve, and Physiology 2016 was no exception, mention of the much-discredited Journal Impact Factor (JIF) and whether the ‘value’ had increased or decreased by a fraction of one point.

It may be apt to remind readers that The Physiological Society is a signatory to the San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment (http://www.ascb.org/dora; Twitter: @DORAssessment). One of the central themes of this declaration is to remove/limit the pernicious influence of the JIF from all manners of research conduct.