Ross MounceNov 18, 2024

Web of Science can't handle innovation 🤷‍♂️ https://rossmounce.co.uk/2024/11/18/web-of-science-cant-handle-innovation/

#eLife #Clarivate #PRCmodel #Journalology

Web of Science can't handle innovation - Ross Mounce

So I read Jeffrey Brainard’s piece in Science magazine on Clarivate’s decision to punish eLife for innovating – by stripping eLife of a proprietary Journal Impact Factor™ number, that Clarivate itself awards (sidenote: to be clear, personally see no value in Journal Impact Factors as they are statistically illiterate, irreproducible, and easily gameable, amongst many […]

Ross Mounce
Ross MounceNov 4, 2024

TIL:

By number of journals published, these are the top 8 largest academic publishers:

1.) Elsevier - 3053
2.) SpringerNature - 2935
3.) Taylor & Francis - 2499
4.) Wiley - 1658 (might exclude Hindawi ones?)
5.) SAGE - 1210
6.) Egypts Presidential Specialized Council for Education and Scientific Research - 823
7.) DeGruyter - 655
8.) Oxford University Press - 504

👀 at number 6!

#Journalology #Metascience

EASEJun 2, 2023

Jeremy Ng at the Centre for Journalology, Ottawa, is competing for our attention with a tabby cat and thoughts of lunch.

Not all #PeerReview effectively assesses quality and provides good feedback. Systematic reviews provide mixed evidence on the effect of review.

This points to a lack of training and standardisation for peer review, especially for biomedical researchers.

#EASEevents #Journalology