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Skeletons In Their Closet: Clarivate Issues Editorial Concern But Takes No Further Action

A public allegation of citation manipulation among 5 journals deserves a public inquiry.

  • By Phil Davis
  • Dec 11, 2018
  • 11 Comments

Tipping the Scales: Is Impact Factor Suppression Biased Against Small Fields?

The suppression of three economic history journals reveals more about Clarivate’s methods than citation manipulation.

  • By Phil Davis
  • Oct 8, 2018
  • 5 Comments

Impact Factor Denied to 20 Journals For Self-Citation, Stacking

Publisher of performance metrics suppresses 20 journals, 14 for high levels of self-citation and 6 for citation stacking, releases Editorial Expression of Concern for 5 others.

  • By Phil Davis
  • Jun 27, 2018
  • 8 Comments

2017 Journal Impact Factors Feature Citation Distributions

The 2018 release of the Journal Citation Reports (JCR) now features citation distributions for each journal. Poor implementation may prevent these figures from being used and may actively encourage abuse by predatory publishers.

  • By Phil Davis
  • Jun 27, 2018
  • 9 Comments

How Much Editorial Misconduct Goes Unreported?

Editors are in a position of power to coerce authors to cite their journal and personal papers. Can algorithms help detect misconduct when authors and journal staff are unwilling to speak out?

  • By Phil Davis
  • Jun 21, 2018
  • 8 Comments

Journal Growth Lowers Impact Factor

Phil Davis examines how publication timing can affect annual Journal Impact Factor scores.

  • By Phil Davis
  • Jun 13, 2018
  • 13 Comments

Journals Lose Citations to Preprint Servers

Why do authors continue to cite preprints years after they’ve been formally published?

  • By Phil Davis
  • May 21, 2018
  • 60 Comments

Amazon Peer Review: Coming To A Preprint Near You

Starting today, anyone who visits the online retailer Amazon will soon be able to review manuscripts, just like pens, sneakers, and toiletry products.

  • By Phil Davis
  • Apr 1, 2018
  • 5 Comments

PeerJ Waives APCs and Pivots Again

Why would a for-profit, VC funded publisher celebrate by committing itself to a full year’s worth of additional expenses with no additional revenue?

  • By Phil Davis
  • Mar 9, 2018
  • 11 Comments

Badges? We Don’t Need No Stinking Preprint Badges!

By incorporating post-publication validation badges into preprints, bioRxiv begins to transform itself from a preprint server into a publishing platform.

  • By Phil Davis
  • Feb 14, 2018
  • 28 Comments
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@ScholarlyChickn @Edit0r_At_Large @scholarlykitchn I suspect they don’t because dropping it might simultaneously make things more meaningful and reduce the appeal to authors/adopters. Like the Impact Factor: flawed but also easy...

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@Edit0r_At_Large @scholarlykitchn @cshperspectives I've been arguing dropping the #altmetric score from the donut since 2013. Little has changed
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