Shah, Chinmay2014-06-072014-06-072010-01Shah Chinmay. Journal impact factor. National Journal of Integrated Research in Medicine. 2010 Jan-Mar; 1(1): 1-3.http://imsear.searo.who.int/handle/123456789/151796Like nuclear energy, the impact factor has become a mixed blessing. I expected that it would be used constructively while recognizing that in the wrong hands it might be abused. In the early 1960s Irving H. Sher and Eugene Garfield created the journal impact factor to help select journals for the Science Citation Index (SCI)1enJournalImpact FactorArticle