RE: Please, No Publisher Impact Factor Press Release Spam

["Anthony Watkinson" <anthony.watkinson@btinternet.com>]

I have considerable sympathy with this posting and it is great 
that the moderators are going to save those who read the list 
from a whole tranche of press releases. I wish some of the other 
press releases could be discouraged too. However let us remember 
that the academic community do take a lot of notice of impact 
factors. We all know that the pursuit of impact factors does 
distort to some extent the way journals are run but it is not 
something that publishers do on their own. They respond to the 
editors and editorial boards of the journals they publish. I do 
not know what contact Peter Davenport has with the academic 
community but if he does not I can assure him that academics are 
very interested in each release of impact factors, misguided 
though they may be.

Anthony Watkinson
University College Londobn

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[mailto:owner-liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu] On Behalf Of Peter Davenport
Sent: 18 June 2010 18:36
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Subject: Please, No Publisher Impact Factor Press Release Spam

The annual scramble for publishers to claim to have come out on 
top of the impact factors release is upon us. Could the moderator 
please spare us this nonsense? As far I see these press releases 
add no value whatsoever, and only serve to infuriate.

Peter R Davenport