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Impact Factor Volatility to a Single Paper: A Comprehensive Analysis of 11639 Journals

Impact Factor Volatility to a Single Paper: A Comprehensive Analysis of 11639 Journals

Study find that Impact Factors (IF) are highly volatile. For example, one in ten journals had their IF boosted by more than 50% by their top three cited papers.

Negotiating with Scholarly Journal Publishers: A Toolkit

Negotiating with Scholarly Journal Publishers: A Toolkit

A North American framework for creating transformative change in the scholarly publishing industry based on initial insights from the University of California's 2018-19 negotiations with Elsevier.

Aim and Scope - SURE Journal

Aim and Scope - SURE Journal

The Series of Unsurprising Results in Economics (SURE) is an e-journal of high-quality research with "unsurprising" findings. We publish scientifically important and carefully-executed studies with statistically insignificant or otherwise unsurprising results. Studies from all fields of Economics will be considered. SURE is an open-access journal and there are no submission charges. SURE benefits readers by: Mitigating the … Continue reading Aim and Scope →

Rethinking Impact Factors: New Pathways in Journal Metrics

Rethinking Impact Factors: New Pathways in Journal Metrics

Diversity, transparency, and reliability are essential principles to ensure that a proliferation of metrics does not distort the scholarly communication system, but leads to more granular and transparent assessments

How Former Elsevier Editors Started a Community-led Publisher and Launched Their First OA Journal

How Former Elsevier Editors Started a Community-led Publisher and Launched Their First OA Journal

After serving as editor-in-chief of an Elsevier journal for over seven years, Lajos Balogh decided to channel his publishing knowledge to a new endeavor. He and a group of fellow editors started a publishing organization and journal of their own.