Perhaps the most problematic classification system in the scientific community is that of the impact factor, which attempts to rank journals by their relative importance. This factor for a particular ...

The prominent academic journal Chemosphere is the latest title to lose its impact factor—a metric often controversially used to evaluate researchers and their work—after retracting a series of papers ...

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ROSEMONT, Ill., June 19, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- The Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology remains the top peer-reviewed journal in its field for the sixth straight year, according to the 2024 ...

According to a new study, the presence of simple hyphens in the titles of academic papers adversely affects the citation statistics, regardless of the quality of the articles. [Editor's note: please ...

The latest edition of Journal Citation Reports® 2018 has been recently published, and according to the report, 41 Bentham Science Publishers (BSP) journals have received Impact Factor ratings. Current ...

The impact factor, a decades-old metric that purports to measure the quality of journals, is a bit like a corrupt bureaucrat: overly powerful, largely incompetent, and widely feared. But the bureau ...

The tide is turning against the impact factor —one of publishing’s most contentious metrics — and its outsized impact on science. Calculated by various companies and promoted by publishers, journal ...

The latest edition of Journal Citation Reports® 2019 has been published recently, and according to the report, Bentham Science Publishers (BSP) journals have significantly improved their Impact ...

The publisher of a high-profile, now-corrected study on black plastics has been removed from a critical index of academic journals after failing to meet quality criteria, according to a report by ...

With an ever-growing roster of specialized scientific publications out there, how are scientists, funding agencies, and academic institutions supposed to decide which ones to take seriously? Anyone in ...