Martin ModrákOct 23, 2023

Did you know that impact factor is NOT the average number of citations to a paper in the journal? See, I just downloaded the "contributing items" table for Nature from Clarivate. It lacks a total of ~16K citations. Those are presumably to "not-citable items" - see https://bjoern.brembs.net/2016/01/just-how-widespread-are-impact-factor-negotiations/ . If the IF of Nature was just the ratio of total citations to number of papers, it would be 57.1, compared to 64.8 reported by Clarivate.

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Just how widespread are impact factor negotiations?

Over the last decade or two, there have been multiple accounts of how publishers have negotiated the impact factors of their journals with the “Institute for Scientific Information” (ISI), both before it was bought by Thomson Reuters and after. This […] <a class="more-link" href="https://bjoern.brembs.net/2016/01/just-how-widespread-are-impact-factor-negotiations/">↓ Read the rest of this entry...</a>

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Jens Peter AndersenNov 9, 2022
Cool discussion about “academic turn-around time”, and relevant to point out that #publishers might play as large or even a larger role than journals and fields: https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2022/11/08/guest-post-publishing-fast-and-slow-a-review-of-publishing-speed-in-the-last-decade/ #scientomerics #scicomm
Guest Post – Publishing Fast and Slow: A Review of Publishing Speed in the Last Decade

Christos Petrou analyzes changes in the speed of publication of research articles over the last ten years.

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César Pallares Nov 7, 2022

Well, the time has come #introduction I'm an Colombian economist in #Bello. Through my career I have become a #researchmanager in different institutions, focused on #researchassessment #strategicplanning and #scientometrics. My research trajectory has been about #colombianscience #openscience #openaccess #scientomerics, and to develop new tools to measure and assess science.

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