Fast-growing open-access journals stripped of coveted impact factors | Science | AAAS

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Summary:

"Nearly two dozen journals from two of the fastest growing open-access publishers, including one of the world’s largest journals by volume, will no longer receive a key scholarly imprimatur. On 20 March, the Web of Science database said it delisted the journals along with dozens of others, stripping them of an impact factor, the citation-based measure of quality that, although controversial, carries weight with authors and institutions. The move highlights continuing debate about a business model marked by high volumes of articles, ostensibly chosen for scientific soundness rather than novelty, and the practice by some open-access publishers of recruiting large numbers of articles for guest-edited special issues. The Web of Science Master Journal List, run by the analytics company Clarivate, lists journals based on 24 measures of quality, including effective peer review and adherence to ethical publishing practices, and periodically checks that listed journals meet the standards. Clarivate calculates impact factors for a select subset of journals on the list. The company expanded quality checks this year because of “increasing threats to the integrity of the scholarly record,” Web of Science’s Editor-in-Chief Nandita Quaderi says. The company removed 50 journals from the list, an unusually large number for a single year, and Clarivate said it is continuing to review 450 more, assisted by an artificial intelligence (AI) tool...."

Link:

https://www.science.org/content/article/fast-growing-open-access-journals-stripped-coveted-impact-factors

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Tags:

oa.new oa.metrics oa.mdpi oa.journals oa.impact oa.hindawi oa.clarivate oa.publishers oa.wos oa.jif oa.quality oa.gold

Date tagged:

03/29/2023, 11:57

Date published:

03/29/2023, 09:52