There is something going on with academics being told to maximize their impact factor. Impact Factor is a score derived from how often the average article in t

There is something going on with academics being told to maximize their impact factor. Impact Factor is a score derived from how often the average article in the journal is cited over the last 5 years. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impact_factor https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impact_factor Deriving then from this an academic is then encouraged to maximize their own score and new academics have only a few years to get their score up if they want to compete for tenure. I'm not sure but there seems to be something in the way your score is calculated to make academics want to publish in certain journals to increase their score. http://researchguides.uic.edu/if http://researchguides.uic.edu/if It sounds like a glorified page rank system, with people wanting to keep getting their own page rank up by getting links from the historically highest page rank sites. I wonder is there a way to hack the system to shift the scoring in favor of open access?