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El Duvelle

Following up on the #eLife / #Clarivate saga, DORA has posted a statement:
sfdora.org/2024/11/25/clarivat

extracts:

"This development reinforces how a commercial entity such as Clarivate, can, through its ownership of scholarly databases and indices, hold the academic community to ransom. Clarivate’s announcement is disappointing as it both punishes innovation in peer review and disregards the important role of authors in deciding how and where their research should be published."

"As funders and institutions increasingly move away from using single metrics to assess research(ers), the role of Journal Impact Factors is becoming increasingly irrelevant."

"We therefore support eLife and encourage it to continue its innovation and encourage other journals to consider doing the same."

Go #eLife, Go AWAY #ImpactFactor!

DORA · Clarivate's actions regarding eLife: DORA's response | DORAThe Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA) recognizes the need to improve the ways in which the outputs of scholarly research are evaluated.
#Academia#Publication#ScientificPublishers
petersuber

What's wrong with this picture? "To diversify academic publishing, strategies should focus on improving the #ImpactFactor of Global #South journals."
gh.bmj.com/content/8/12/e01311

BMJ Global Health · How to address the geographical bias in academic publishing### Summary box The commitment by the global health community to promote equity in research, publishing and practice is a welcome addition to the discourse on decolonising global health.1 2 Bibliometric analysis of authorship and prime authorship positioning (first and last) has demonstrated that researchers from low-income and middle-income countries or the Global South are under-represented in academic publishing3–5 highlighting the need for diversification. Concomitantly, journals have made efforts to ensure equitable research collaboration3 and authorship practices,6 to diversify editorial boards, and to improve accessibility of research through open access (OA) policies to increase Global South representation.4 However, there has been little attention paid to where research is disseminated. Academic publishing is dominated by journals from Western Europe and North America—henceforth WENA or the Global North—where major publishers and citation databases are based. Global North journals are often associated with international and global-level prestige, while Global South journals are presumed to be local, national or regional in scope. Despite increased OA publication, many peer-reviewed articles remain behind paywalls and out of reach of the very communities on whom …
#DEI#JournalImpactFactor#JIF
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MAHanson

Lastly let’s talk #ImpactFactor (IF). Reminder: IF = avg cites/doc articles in a journal receive within 1st 2y. IF values total cites.

IFs are going up 📈: they’re literally being inflated like a currency. So if you see a journal celebrating its year-over-year increase in IF, you’ve gotta normalize for inflation. This inflation accompanies the huge crush of special issues from earlier. But(!) a citation network-adjusted rank (Scimago Journal Rank, SJR) hasn’t changed accordingly. What gives? 9/n

petersuber

More evidence that some #publishers set #APCs based on #prestige & what they think the market will bear, not production #costs.
thenation.com/article/society/

"#Elsevier told editors that fees were based on a journal’s reputation —specifically, their #ImpactFactor. As the editors grew the journal’s prestige, Elsevier increased the publication fee by about 15%…Keilholz…concluded that the incentives for #ForProfit publishers were not aligned with 'what we want for science.' "

The NationHow Scientific Publishers’ Extreme Fees Put Profit Over ProgressLast month, the editorial team of NeuroImage resigned over the “unethical fees” charged by the journal’s publisher, Elsevier. Can scientists ditch the for-profit system?
#NeuroImage
Dr. Robert M Flight

Happy holidays!

I was looking at my personal projects folder, and noticed this old analysis of the distribution of journal impact factors, that was inspired after reading the 2016 paper from Larivi`ere et al.

I decided I should write it up as a proper blog post, and here it is.

TL;DR: If we aren't going to abolish them, maybe at least log-transform them first.

Journal Impact Factor Distributions
rmflight.github.io/posts/2022-

rmflight.github.ioDeciphering Life: One Bit at a Time - Journal Impact Factor Distributions
#ImpactFactor
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