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A recent editorial from Colombia Medica journal callsfor a national agreement with the San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment,however, some good pointspresented in this declaration can end up in a bad recommendation, such as to not trust and to not use the impactfactor! Although the number of journals and researchers thatadhered since 2012 up to now to this initiative seems impressive (547 organizations and 12,055 researchers), thesenumbers reflect indeed that the vast majority of journals(27.000) and researchers do not agree. The impact factor is still widely used, perhaps because in our daily workas researchers we can compare articles from high and lowimpact factor journals and easily figure out that qualityis very well correlated with this scienciometric measure.Despite there are undeniable occasional drawbacks, impactfactor is still a reliable and reasonable measure of journalquality. Moreover, Thomson’s ISI no longer has the monopoly to calculate the impact factor and Scimago is now doing agood work that has gain it the trust of the scientific community.

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