Impact of Social Sciences – Elite journals are losing their position of privilege
lkfitz's bookmarks 2016-08-01
Summary:
"Having first documented the large-scale demise of the impact factor as a predictor of quality research, George Lozano and team examined whether this pattern also applies to the handful of elite journals. His recent study finds the proportion of top papers published by elite journals has in fact been in steady decline since the late-eighties."