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About Nature Publishing Group Journals : Authors & Referees @ Npg
Nature has the highest impact factor of any journal publishing basic scientific research
Editor, Philip Campbell. A weekly, international journal, publishing papers from any area of science with great potential impact and whose importance extends well beyond the confines of the specific discipline concerned. Nature has the highest impact factor of any journal…
Company Information : About Npg
Nature Publishing Group (company description)
Focusing on the needs of scientists, Nature (founded in 1869) is the leading weekly, international scientific journal. In addition, for this audience, NPG publishes the Nature research journals and Nature Reviews journals, plus a range of prestigious academic journals including…
Core : Three Access Levels To Underpin Open Access
Green and gold open access
Apart from the growth of OA journals, providing so-‐called Gold OA, a cornerstone of the OA movement has been a process called self-‐archiving (Green OA). Self-‐archiving refers to the deposit of a preprint or postprint of a journal or conference article in an institutional…
Cybernetics & Human Knowing | Imprint Academic
Second order cybernetics
Cybernetics and Human Knowing is a quarterly international multi- and interdisciplinary journal on second order cybernetics, autopoiesis and cybersemiotics. The journal is devoted to the new understandings of self-organizing processes of information in human knowing that have…
Eugene Garfield - Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia
Eugene garfield and the beginning of the impact factor
Following ideas inspired by Vannevar Bush's famous 1945 article "As We May Think", Garfield undertook the development of a comprehensive citation index showing the propagation of scientific thinking; he started the Institute for Scientific Information in 1955. The creation of…
Prof.dr. B. Mons
Evolution of web publishing
The period in which ‘web publishing’ apparently meant ‘putting dead PDF’s on the Internet’ is as good as over. However, the so called ‘article of the furture’, in fact not more than a mishappened Christmas tree of hyperlinks in the text that was originally meant for reading, is…
Science Journals Have Passed Their Expiration Date -- It's Time For The Publishing Platform - Innovation Insights
Scientific publishing is a relic from another age
Scientific journals keep alive a culture of unnecessary adjudication, delay, corruption-rich anonymous peer review, and conclusions without the underlying data sets. Enough! What the world needs are publishing platforms, not journals. Here is what a publishing platform does: A…
Some Thoughts On Journal Impact Factor
Problems with impact factor
But impact factor is extremely problematic for many reasons. It's based on citations, which (over the long run) may be an OK measure of impact, but are subject to many confounding factors, including field-specific citation patterns. It's an attempt to predict the success of…
What Authors Want From Open Access Publishing | Stm Publishing
Wiley survey: what authors want from open access
John Wiley & Sons, Inc., today announced the results of an author survey on open access, with over ten thousand respondents from across Wiley’s journal portfolio. The research explored the factors that authors assess when deciding where to publish, and whether to publish…
What’s In A Name? Journal Rebranding And Its Consequences On Citations - Research Trends
Erroneous references due to title changes
This is corroborated by Research Trends’ own case study of citations and references for 10 journals that changed title in 2000. Anecdotal evidence gleaned through reference lists suggests that journal title changes can indeed lead to erroneous references from authors and a…