The fox guarding the henhouse? Or, why we don’t need another citation-based journal quality index – IO: In The Open

lkfitz's bookmarks 2016-12-14

Summary:

"Nature announced on December 8 that Elsevier has launched a new journal quality index, called CiteScore, which will be based on Elsevier’s Scopus citation database and will compete with the longstanding and influential Journal Impact Factor (IF)."

Link:

http://intheopen.net/2016/12/the-fox-guarding-the-henhouse-or-why-we-dont-need-another-citation-based-journal-quality-index/

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oa.new oa.publishers oa.elsevier oa.citescore oa.jif oa.p&t oa.comment oa.altmetrics oa.impact oa.metrics

Date tagged:

12/14/2016, 16:33

Date published:

12/14/2016, 11:33