European Research Council bans journal impact factor from bids

It’s about time this dubious measurement is cast into oblivion for grant applications. I have colleagues who insist on having undergraduate students in large classes they teach read their papers in so-called high impact journals

Actually most of us (those working in academia) are aware of JIF, even if you dont state the JIF. My university only counts publications that are in the top 10% in the category (based on ISI JIF). That is not fair to those people who are not working in a big field that is often less cited and hence with low JIF. Paper publishing in so called high impact journal, do they really have greater impact to science or society, of course not really. I remember there was a paper published in Science in 200X, when I was a postgrad student, many people worked on the follow up studies based on the finding, but ended up with nothing. well... i think the whole world should ban this metrics.