Wellcome director with golden touch bids farewell

I am heartened by Mark Walport's enlightened attitude of judging academics by the research they do rather than the journals they publish in. I fear, though, there's still a long way to go in convincing many in the research community that impact factors are 'nonsense' when rating research quality. This is evident from some of the comments on a blogpost I wrote about the widespread use of journal impact factors to rate research quality:I am heartened by Mark Walport's enlightened attitude of judging academics by the research they do rather than the journals they publish in. I fear, though, there's still a long way to go in convincing the rest of the research community that impact factors are 'nonsense' when rating research quality. This is evident from some of the comments on a blogpost I wrote about the widespread use of journal impact factors to rate research quality in the REF: (find by Googling: Bishopblog REF2014)