#journalimpactfactor — Public Fediverse posts

"Clarivate has announced that, from 2025 (2024 data), citations to and from retracted articles will no longer contribute towards the Journal Impact Factor." - Research Information
https://www.researchinformation.info/news/clarivate-removes-citations-to-and-from-retracted-articles-from-jif/

#ImpactFactor #JournalImpactFactor #Retractions #ResearchIntegrity #PublicationEthics #Citations #Bibliometrics

Published today: 20 years of bibliometric data illustrates a lack of concordance between journal impact factor and fungal species discovery in systematic mycology https://doi.org/10.3897/mycokeys.110.136048

cc @eLife

The conclusion section is superb.
(direct quote coming in the next post...)

#Clarivate #JournalImpactFactor #JIFmania

Not a good look for MDPI and Frontiers: a new preprint finds clear signs of self-citation having boosted their journals' Impact Factors.

https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/5t8v7

#JournalImpactFactor #Citations #Bibliometrics #PublicationEthics #ImpactFactor #SelfCitation #AcademicPublishing #JournalPublication

What's wrong with this picture? "To diversify academic publishing, strategies should focus on improving the #ImpactFactor of Global #South journals."
https://gh.bmj.com/content/8/12/e013111

#DEI #JournalImpactFactor #JIF

Die großen Verlage behaupten ihre Position. Eine große Rolle spielt dabei der Journal Impact Factor (JIP). Er ist insbes. in den Naturwissenschaften eine zentrale Orientierungsgröße bei der Entscheidung, wo man einen Artikel einreicht.
Beim #JournalImpactFactor ist der Zhg. von Zitationen & Qualität fraglich: A. Wakefield stellte einen Zhg. zw. einer Impfung & Autismus her. Die Studie war gefälscht, W. verlor seine Zulassung als Arzt. Die Arbeit wird häufig zitiert – als Negativbeispielt.

#Clarivate will support conversational #AI in its tools and allow an AI company to train on its #paywalled #data.
https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/clarivate-announces-partnership-with-ai21-labs-as-part-of-its-generative-ai-strategy-to-drive-growth-301857301.html

Or at least that's my plain-language summary of a pretty opaque press release.

Note that Clarivate owns or controls the #WebOfScience, #JournalImpactFactor (#JIF) data, #Publons, #EndNote, #ScholarOne, and #ProQuest.

@lakens @richvn

testing testing (just to see how it handles slashes)...
https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.201617

#10.1098/rsos.201617 #JournalImpactFactor #Taxonomy #Zootaxa #Clarivate