Highly rEsteemed for the last paragraph alone.
Great update. Thank you and SteemON!

“impact factor”. Informetrics is being used to evaluate the impact of serials, authors, department, institutions and nations. The same capitalistic principle applies everywhere. People want to invest less than what will be returned to them. Therefore a tool for the investors into science had to be created in order to somehow evaluate the impact the researches are making. The question is whether the amount of citations really measures the “usefulness”. The frequency in which any document is cited doesn’t necessarily have to reflect its usefulness, because people can cite it for irrational reasons.