Re: Press Release: Open Access journals proven to compete on

["Sally Morris \(ALPSP\)" <chief-exec@alpsp.org>]

Sophisticated users of ISI statistics do indeed do as David says - but
many, I suspect, are less sophisticated

Of course, publishers would not include review articles in journals purely
to boost the IF.  All the evidence I've seen (e.g. reader surveys when I
was a journal publisher) showed that they are actuall extremely popular
with readers too - particularly in disciplines with a readership
consisting largely of practitioners who are not themselves researchers

Sally Morris, Chief Executive
Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers
E-mail:  chief-exec@alpsp.org

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Goodman" <David.Goodman@liu.edu>
To: "Sally Morris (ALPSP)" <chief-exec@alpsp.org>;
Sent: Friday, July 02, 2004 10:03 AM
Subject: RE: Press Release: Open Access journals proven to compete on

> It is so well known, that ISI gives instructions for removing them from
> the impact factor.
>
> Even before that, I, like my colleagues, when we evaluating borderline
> titles, look at the non-review content only, and we remind faculty of
> this when we sent the issues for  them to examine. I've occasionally
> gone to Science Citation Reports to examine, article by article, if the
> non-review articles had any citations. You can do it even without the
> contents page, if you simply rule out the beginning article in each
> issue.  Salting the mine will deceive only the novices.
>
> Dr. David Goodman
> dgoodman@liu.edu