As the #ImpactFactor increases, #PeerReview reports get longer, especially discussing materials and methods. However, there are fewer reviewers from Asia, Africa, and South America in high-impact journals vs Europe and North America: the association may be driven by English fluency.

Anna Severin et al. conclude: "Differences were modest, and the Journal Impact Factor is therefore a bad predictor of the quality of peer review of an individual manuscript."

https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.3002238

#Bibliometrics

Good news: With an impact factor of 0 you will be among the top 41% of journals. Or is it bad news? =:-)

#impactFactor

We are proud to share the latest issue of the Journal of Agriculture and Environment for International Development.

https://www.jaeid.it/index.php/jaeid/issue/view/835

The journal is fully #OpenAcces, it is indexed on SCOPUS and it got for the first time an #ImpactFactor of 0.8 for 2022.

Nothing new under the sun, but it is always interesting to see how deep the rabbit hole goes....
#publishorperish #mdpi #pyramidscheme #metrics #impactfactor
https://english.elpais.com/science-tech/2023-06-04/a-researcher-who-publishes-a-study-every-two-days-reveals-the-darker-side-of-science.html

Tired: Impact Factors 🥱

Wired: https://coara.eu/ & https://sfdora.org 🔥

See https://www.morressier.com/post/impact-factor-its-effects-significance-and-limitations-for-research

#ReformingRA #ImpactFactors #Bibliometrics #ImpactFactor #JournalCitationReports #JCR #ResearchAssessment #CoARA #DORA

Mireia Guardingo Melian from @clarivate on quality metrics and their significance in the indexing process.

Read more on recent changes to the Journal Citation Reports (JCR):
* https://clarivate.com/blog/mapping-the-path-to-future-changes-in-the-journal-citation-reports/
* https://clarivate.com/blog/building-trust-through-transparency-our-pledge-to-provide-more-clarity-around-web-of-science-journal-coverage/

#QualityMetrics #indexing #EASEevents #ImpactFactor #Citations #Bibliometrics #ScholComm

@deevybee Web of Science recently delisted 50 journals, removing their impact factors. But “Clarivate initially did not name any of the delisted journals or provide specific reasons.” Why wouldn’t they identify them?!

https://www.science.org/content/article/fast-growing-open-access-journals-stripped-coveted-impact-factors

#ResearchIntegrity
#ImpactFactor #ImpactFactors

Journal performance beyond the #ImpactFactor. Cristina Huidiu at Elsevier (a former librarian) says responsible use of metrics - article metrics, journal metrics, & #altmetrics - can be business indicators to help publishers to make decisions.

Can get insights into impact beyond citations and trends in fields, from patents and funding.

Collaboration patterns of existing authors can show new directions of their work.

#EASEevents #Bibliometrics

More evidence that some #publishers set #APCs based on #prestige & what they think the market will bear, not production #costs.
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/neuroimage-elsevier-editorial-board-journal-profit/

"#Elsevier told editors that fees were based on a journal’s reputation —specifically, their #ImpactFactor. As the editors grew the journal’s prestige, Elsevier increased the publication fee by about 15%…Keilholz…concluded that the incentives for #ForProfit publishers were not aligned with 'what we want for science.' "

#NeuroImage

Web of Science de-listed 50 journals from its #ImpactFactor calculation. The journals are primarily fast-growing pay-to-publish #openaccess publications.

The Web of Science Master Journal List, run by the analytics company Clarivate, lists journals based on 24 measures of quality, including effective #PeerReview and ethical #publishing practices.

The company expanded quality checks this year because of “increasing threats to the integrity of the scholarly record."

https://www.science.org/content/article/fast-growing-open-access-journals-stripped-coveted-impact-factors

Best unintended ChatGPT outcome: it so infects citation metrics that it makes the impact factor worthless.

#llm #chatGPT #impactFactor #schadenfreude

Yo. Weil sich alle einig sind, wie bescheuert diese bibliometrischen Kennzahlen zur Bewertung der Qualität von Forschungsarbeiten sind, haben wir *noch mehr* bibliometrischen Kennzahlen erfunden. Und schicken sie dir unaufgefordert per Email.
#altmetric
#impactFactor
#academia

Hot topics in science
#OpenAccess
#ImpactFactor
#PeerReview
#ScienceIntegrity

Quote: “My expectation is that this initial delisting … is only the tip of the iceberg”

https://www.science.org/content/article/fast-growing-open-access-journals-stripped-coveted-impact-factors

👉thanks Martin Faucher for sharing

2/ In addition, #MDPI's continued use of #ImpactFactor and #Elsevier's CiteScore to market their journals breaches #DORA and opens up a journal that regularly publishes on the subject of responsible research evaluation or responsible bibliometrics to accusations of hypocrisy. https://khrono.no/vi-har-forlatt-redaksjonsradet-i-publications/770140

Just adding some tags: #OpenScience #MDPI #ImpactFactor #AcademicChatter #PredatoryPublishing #Academic #Publishing #Journals #Clarivate #WebOfScience

See above post for discussion of MDPI's megajournal getting delisted by Clarivate, and what it means for these conversations.

Following the delisting of MDPI's flagship journal IJERPH from Clarivate/Web of Science, I've penned a perspective. Hopefully helps folks understand where this came from & why it's such a big deal for #MDPI, and the implications moving forward. :googlescholar:

For perspective: IJERPH publishes more articles/y than PLOS One. 📊

See: bit.ly/ClarivateMDPI

#AcademicChatter #PredatoryPublishing #ImpactFactor

“@PNASNews is not a good journal — and other hard truths about journal prestige.” Syed 2023. Get Syeducated. https://getsyeducated.substack.com/p/pnas-is-not-a-good-journal

#ImpactFactor #ScientificJournals #Journals #Academia #SciComm

#SciComm #Science #ImpactFactor #ScientificJournals #PrestigeJournals

What’s so bad about prestige, high impact journals?
https://getsyeducated.substack.com/p/pnas-is-not-a-good-journal

Adam Eyre-Walker & Nina Stoletzki once showed that assessor score depends strongly on the journal in which the paper is published, n that assessors tend to over-rate papers published in journals with high #impactfactor:

:doi: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.1001675

Perhaps I'm being subjective, but I suspect that in the field of #scientometrics, scientists could more correctly evaluate articles without even knowing the journals in which they were published.

#assessment #review #citations

Citation patterns:

“The present study shows a dissociation in psychology journals between the citation patterns of theoretical and empirical journals in psychology, with theoretical journals typically exhibiting growth in citations over time and empirical journals experiencing a rapid peak followed by a plateau.”

Open access: http://hdl.handle.net/10261/295670

#Science
#Psychology
@psychology
#Citations
#ImpactFactor
#AcademicPublishing