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Any sane academic evaluation policy would forbid mention of Impact Factor

You may be horrified to learn that at Monash until recently (not sure if still true or not) one of the measures was, I shit you not, “Cumulative Impact Factor”, which is the *sum* of the IFs of the journal of each of your papers.

Yes, I am horrified. I wonder, do/did they go to the trouble to use the historical IF at the time each paper was published, or admit it's all meaningless and use the most recently made-up value?