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Poison Impact Factor

Poison is often defined as a substance which causes adverse reaction in human or animal systems when introduced into body through various ways accidental or deliberate methods. These substances will be capable to bring dreadful effects in living systems. The major poisons are venoms, chemicals, bacterial toxins, toxic gases etc. The various ways of poisoning includes ingestion, inhalation, injection, or absorption. The impact factor of journal provides quantitative assessment tool for grading, evaluating, sorting and comparing journals of comparable kind. It reflects the typical number of citations to recent articles published in science and science journals during a particular year or period, and is usually used as a proxy for the relative importance of a journal within its field. It is first devised by Eugene Garfield, the founding father of the Institute for Scientific Information. The impact factor of a journal is evaluated by dividing the amount of current year citations to the source items published therein journal during the previous two years. Sao Paulo Med J. 2010; 128(4):185-6185EditorialImpact factor: vitamin or poison? Fator de impacto: problema ou solução? Paulo Manuel Pêgo-FernandeI, Alessandro Wasum MarianiIIIMD, PhD. Full and associate professor, Department of Cardiopneumonology, Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de São Paulo (FMUSP), São Paulo, Brazil.IIMD. Physician and postgraduate student, Discipline of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de São Paulo (FMUSP), São Paulo, Brazil.    

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