How the Web of Science takes a step back | Plan S

"The Web of Science, a major commercial indexing service of scientific journals operated by Clarivate, recently decided to remove eLife from its Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE). eLife will only be partially indexed in Web of Science as part of its Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI). The justification offered for this decision is that eLife’s innovative publishing model was deemed to conflict with the Web of Science’s standards for assuring quality. This blog post argues that this decision works against the interest of science and will ultimately harm innovation and transparency in scientific research...."