Serving authors, not readers.
BioMed Central has revamped its website, but the changes appear to me to be little more than lipstick. Read the rest of this entry »
BioMed Central: New Website, Same Old Low Quality
January 7, 2016
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article processing charges, Scholarly Open-Access Publishers | Tagged: BioMed Central, copyediting, Impact factor, Iran, typographical errors | 
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Dead Metrics
December 10, 2015Scholarly metrics come, but some never go — even when they should. Here are three examples of dead metrics, scholarly metrics that are still around yet infrequently used and of little or no practical value to researchers or librarians.
37 Comments | Scholarly Open-Access Publishers | Tagged: Impact factor, Metrics, Web of Science | Permalink
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The International Journal of Simulation Modelling: A Review
December 1, 2015
A good model ?
I’ve received inquiries about the International Journal of Simulation Modelling. It’s not on my list, but it is borderline, at best. Let me show you what I mean.
12 Comments | article processing charges, Scholarly Open-Access Publishers | Tagged: Editorial boards, Impact factor, Journal sponsorships, Slovenia | Permalink
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Philippines Journal Charges Two Excessive Fees, Exaggerates IF
October 13, 2015
Highest author fee in Asia?
The Philippines-based journal Asia Life Sciences charges authors a submission fee, and, when their papers are accepted, it also charges an exorbitant author fee. The fee is one of the highest open-access author fees in Asia.
10 Comments | article processing charges, Scholarly Open-Access Publishers, spam email, Unethical Practices | Tagged: Impact factor, Philippines, submission fees | Permalink
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Fake ISI Aims to Trick the Scholarly Community
December 11, 2014
Institute for Deception.
I recently learned of an impostor website for Journal Citation Reports, the product marketed by Thomson Reuters, and the successor of the Institute for Scientific Information. The impostor calls itself the “Institute for Science Information.”
26 Comments | Misleading metrics | Tagged: Impact factor, Thomson Reuters | Permalink
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Impact Factor Confusion: Spam Emails Mislead Researchers
May 20, 2014Bogus metrics companies have made it possible for essentially any journal to have an “impact factor.” However, because true impact factor information — the data supplied by Thomson Reuters’ Journal Citation Reports — is proprietary, it can be hard to verify publisher impact factor claims
11 Comments | article processing charges, Misleading metrics, Scholarly Open-Access Publishers, spam email, Unethical Practices | Tagged: Impact factor, misleading metrics | Permalink
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More Questionable Scholarly Metrics are Emerging
February 13, 2014My previous blog post described a questionable new scholarly metric called International Impact Factor Services (IIFS). Now I’ve learned about three new additional questionable metrics.
19 Comments | Scholarly Open-Access Publishers, Unethical Practices | Tagged: altmetrics, bogus metrics, Impact factor | Permalink
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