 Several methods, not necessarily with nefarious intent, exist for a journal to cite articles in the same journal which will increase the journal's impact factor.Beyond editorial policies that may skew the impact factor, journals can take overt steps to game the system.For example, in 2007, the specialist journal "Folia Phoniatrica et Logopaedica", with an impact factor of 0.66, published an editorial that cited all its articles from 2005 to 2006 in a protest against the "absurd scientific situation in some countries" related to use of the impact factor.