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Family Practice 2007 24(5):401-402; doi:10.1093/fampra/cmm061
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© The Author 2007. Published by Oxford University Press. All rights reserved. For permissions, please e-mail: journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org.

Editorial

Measuring the impact of family medicine research: scientific citations or societal impact?

Mieke L. van Driela, Manfred Maierb and Jan De Maeseneera

a Department of Family Medicine and Primary Health Care, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
b Department of General Practice and Family Medicine, Center for Public Health, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

Correspondence to Mieke L van Driel, Department of Family Medicine and Primary Health Care, Ghent University, De Pintelaan 185, UZ 1K3, B-9000 Ghent, Belgium; Email: mieke.vandriel@ugent.be

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The ultimate goal of research in medicine, a spectrum starting with basic biomedical research via clinical trials to implementation research, is to improve the health and the quality of life of individuals and communities. Research should therefore be of the very best quality and assessment of its quality is important. Traditionally, research and researchers are evaluated by means of the ‘scientific impact’ of research output, i.e. publications in biomedical journals. The higher the impact factor of a journal, the better the research scores. Journals know how they can polish up their impact factor and for some this is even a deliberate . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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