“Barriers to Impact Factor Growth in Two Major Psychiatry Journals in India”¹ is a very well-articulated and meticulously thought out article. But it gets the readers thinking whether they are doing justice to their hard work by sending their research to be published in Indian Journal of Psychiatry, Indian Journal of Psychological Medicine, or the likes of it with a fairly low impact factor (IF). This got us on a fact-finding quest about how much does the IF really matter?

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“印度两大精神病学期刊影响因子增长的障碍” ¹是一篇非常清晰且经过深思熟虑的文章。但它让读者思考他们是否通过将他们的研究发表在《印度精神病学杂志》、《印度心理医学杂志》或诸如此类的影响因子 (IF) 相当低的杂志上而对自己的辛勤工作做出了公正的评价。这让我们开始了一项关于 IF 真正重要的事实调查任务？