Although Richard Monastersky describes a real problem — the abuse of journals’ impact factors — its solution is so obvious that we hardly need so many words on the subject (“The Number That’s ...

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 ...

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 ...

Recently launched OA journals recognized for quality in latest Journal Citation Reports™ PISCATAWAY, N.J., 27 July 2023 -- IEEE, the world’s largest technical professional organization advancing ...

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 ...

[Toronto, June 24, 2024] – JMIR Publications is pleased to announce the outstanding performance of its scholarly journals in the 2024 release of Journal Citation Reports (JCR) by Clarivate, which ...

This paper provides an analysis of the citation counts of articles published in the leading finance journals. It identifies the determinants of the most prevalent measure of influence for finance ...

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 ...

Survey finds that 40% of research-intensive universities mention the controversial metric in review documents — despite efforts to dampen its influence. Almost half of research-intensive universities ...

Trickery by editors to boost their journal impact factor means that the widely used metric “has now lost most of its credibility,” according to Research Policy journal. With many editors now engaged ...

The impact factors for the Ecological Society of America’s five journals have increased by 18% on average, according to the 2021 Edition of the Journal Citation Reports® (JCR) published by Clarivate ...