Criticism
The use of these data has been subject to various criticisms, which are discussed in detail in the article on impact factors. The primary acknowledged limitation is that almost all the journals covered are English language journals from North America, western Europe and Australia, and that the information in the derived tables combines original research journals and review journals — which have very different citation behavior.
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