The World Journal of Neuroscience credibilty
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Ken Ware
Feb 22, 2016, 7:21:45 AM2/22/16
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Hello group,
I am having a debate about the credibility of the World Journal of Neuroscience. I am of the opinion that it is a poorly reviewed, if at all, predator journal with a very low impact factor.
I would be grateful for the opinion of other members of the group.
Best to all,
Ken Ware
Guastello, Stephen
Feb 22, 2016, 8:40:06 AM2/22/16
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Ken et al:
I use this source to check out open access/author-pay journals when one of them lands on my radar screen:
If you go to the site and use SCIRP (the publisher) as a search term you'll see what's known about them.
In this case it is not flattering.
Stephen J. Guastello, Ph.D.
Professor of Psychology, Marquette University
P. O. Box 1881, Milwaukee, WI 53201-1881 USA
Editor-in-Chief,
Nonlinear Dynamics, Psychology, and Life Sciences
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Elio Conte
Feb 22, 2016, 10:14:00 AM2/22/16
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i am not convinced of your indications, Stephen. You well know that to
day everyone tries to bring water to his mill and the world of the
magazines has become very complex and involved along many different
ways. In fact I see that in your link the list involves also journals as
Frontiers that instead in the attention of many researchers is
considered the best one. Of course there are very excellent journals
that from years are attempting to obtain an IF and this is forbidden and
the motivations remain unclear. I know only one thing. I have published
on wjns and other scirp.org articles and I have had always some detailed
advantages : I had an open access without so high payment and my article
was on line and open to all. My articles WERE always peer reviewed and I
received attention and assistance also in the language since I am not a
native english. Only in an unfortunate case the paper appeared with
spelling errors since the interest was to speed up the publication for
the interest of the result. Other magazines require abot 30 USD for
purchase one article or require constant subscriptions that not all the
institutions are able to support in the costs. Finally , in wjns I found
a lot of valuable reserachers from Australia to America to Europe that
constantly publish valuable reserach on this journal. Are all
researchers that must be involved in a negative evaluation because they
published on this journal? I do not retain. Finally there is the problem
of the contents. One looks at the contents of the articles. I see that
so much magazines continue to publish articles that are as example
methodlogically uncorrect. How much articles do you find that as example
continue to use Fourier in HRV, They never mention that to use Fourier
one should have stationary, linear and periodic signals and instead HR
is non periodic, non stationary and NON LINEAR. I never had also the
most little indication that scirp journals have some different project
respect to scientificty. If I had this impression immediately I had
suspended any submission. Always I submitted my articles, always I had
confirmation of reception, always I had the referee evaluation also , in
some case, with evidente indications of major corrections, always I
payed an open access as many and many other journals. Finally., before
siubmitting to a magazine I look at the Ediotorial Board. And I see that
the Editorial Boards of sirp journals are very satisfactory. And there
are so many magazines that have an Editorial Board in the stars and do
not arrive to an IF. Strategy? There is another consideration. We have
to day archives where everyone may post his articles . Arrxiv as
example. One is free to deposit here all his publications and , in
particular in the past years, not referee action was required. Arxiv to
day is a fundamental reference in all the world and is constantly quoted
and may be quoted in all the journals. What is the conclusion? Strategy!
I have not elements to defend scirp or to denigrate it. I know only that
I do my work and that I submit to a magazine or another and that all ,
or quite all, require money for the open access. I only do my effort of
researcher that is one to produce scientific results that published are
subjected to the evaluations of other researchers so that are improved
tanks to the indications of other scholars that read and collaborate by
their criticism. This is science in my modest opion. The other is matter
that I have difficulty to identify. When I find the journal named .... I
cannot go to a police station to investigate. I evaluate the published
artciles, evaluate the Editorial Board, I evaluate the money that is
necessary, i evaluate the diffusion that is able to assure I cannot do
more. I am a reseracher. No more. A fianl consideration. I see that
scirp journals contain articles from different universities in the
world. May be that they are all to be insulted in their competence?.
day everyone tries to bring water to his mill and the world of the
magazines has become very complex and involved along many different
ways. In fact I see that in your link the list involves also journals as
Frontiers that instead in the attention of many researchers is
considered the best one. Of course there are very excellent journals
that from years are attempting to obtain an IF and this is forbidden and
the motivations remain unclear. I know only one thing. I have published
on wjns and other scirp.org articles and I have had always some detailed
advantages : I had an open access without so high payment and my article
was on line and open to all. My articles WERE always peer reviewed and I
received attention and assistance also in the language since I am not a
native english. Only in an unfortunate case the paper appeared with
spelling errors since the interest was to speed up the publication for
the interest of the result. Other magazines require abot 30 USD for
purchase one article or require constant subscriptions that not all the
institutions are able to support in the costs. Finally , in wjns I found
a lot of valuable reserachers from Australia to America to Europe that
constantly publish valuable reserach on this journal. Are all
researchers that must be involved in a negative evaluation because they
published on this journal? I do not retain. Finally there is the problem
of the contents. One looks at the contents of the articles. I see that
so much magazines continue to publish articles that are as example
methodlogically uncorrect. How much articles do you find that as example
continue to use Fourier in HRV, They never mention that to use Fourier
one should have stationary, linear and periodic signals and instead HR
is non periodic, non stationary and NON LINEAR. I never had also the
most little indication that scirp journals have some different project
respect to scientificty. If I had this impression immediately I had
suspended any submission. Always I submitted my articles, always I had
confirmation of reception, always I had the referee evaluation also , in
some case, with evidente indications of major corrections, always I
payed an open access as many and many other journals. Finally., before
siubmitting to a magazine I look at the Ediotorial Board. And I see that
the Editorial Boards of sirp journals are very satisfactory. And there
are so many magazines that have an Editorial Board in the stars and do
not arrive to an IF. Strategy? There is another consideration. We have
to day archives where everyone may post his articles . Arrxiv as
example. One is free to deposit here all his publications and , in
particular in the past years, not referee action was required. Arxiv to
day is a fundamental reference in all the world and is constantly quoted
and may be quoted in all the journals. What is the conclusion? Strategy!
I have not elements to defend scirp or to denigrate it. I know only that
I do my work and that I submit to a magazine or another and that all ,
or quite all, require money for the open access. I only do my effort of
researcher that is one to produce scientific results that published are
subjected to the evaluations of other researchers so that are improved
tanks to the indications of other scholars that read and collaborate by
their criticism. This is science in my modest opion. The other is matter
that I have difficulty to identify. When I find the journal named .... I
cannot go to a police station to investigate. I evaluate the published
artciles, evaluate the Editorial Board, I evaluate the money that is
necessary, i evaluate the diffusion that is able to assure I cannot do
more. I am a reseracher. No more. A fianl consideration. I see that
scirp journals contain articles from different universities in the
world. May be that they are all to be insulted in their competence?.
Theodore Hoppe
Feb 22, 2016, 12:16:08 PM2/22/16
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Elio Conte
Feb 22, 2016, 1:09:52 PM2/22/16
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Theodore , your two links do not move the question of a millimeter.
I do not intend to support wjns or to denigrate wjns since I know
well that in internet one finds all and the contray of all.
Wikipedia , I know, gives important informations but every one is
able to write what wants . Nature? should we speak about the manner
in which it regulates , as it is said on internet, other magazines?
And the editorial boards? As you see also I , at some time, look at
internet. Two basic questions remain: i am an honest researcher who
works and sbmits and publish his results on different journals. I am
70 and I have published about 200 papers. Excellent papers? No.
Every publication needs improvement , it does not exist the perfect
publication .... one reads the paper of the colleague and possibly
improves its content with his/her criticism. It does not exist the
good and the bad journal ... at least in the great case of the
present magazines. Had you some time rejected papers on the basis of
an unacceptable criticism? It happens. So it is better that we do
not enter in the sphere of the editorial boards , referee, INTENT OF
EACH MAGAZINE. I hope you remember Joe Zbilut, my friend. Always he
said me to have found more good papers on the little journal printed
at few meters from his house. The content is the essential matter
and a content is satisfactory if colleague have valid elements to
improve it. This is science. Returning to wjns. I never was aware of
these links as others. And I repeat ..,.I see strategy..... do you
not see it to day in the complex of the arrangements of all the
magazines? I repeat .. I am a reseracher not a police man. There is
another thing. Why so much people publish on wjns/year? All
reserachers pertaining to universities that do not deserve such
consideration? Just I have also found a reserach of NASA
laboratories who published on wjns . Does this researcher need to
publish on wjns? Is it not evident that as always the truth of the
things does not stay in what we see but in what it is.The contents.
Do you know about a fundamental theorem in quantum mechanics? The
kochen Specker theorem. Did it appear on Physical Review? No. It
appeared on a journal of mechanics. To day it is a celebrated
theorem of quantum mechanics. The content .. this is the matter. As
an example, since we are in chaos theory. You certainly know the
importance of the concept and the method of the Average Mutal
Information in itself, as tool to explore non linearities , in phase
space reconstruction and still in a lot of applications. Ok. If you
are able to take the method of the Generalized Mutual Information ,
GMI , as it was elaborated by Pompe in a lot of publications and you
are able to examine time series and find dependencies....... this is
a valuable content , no? Obviously it is always possible that some
colleague finds some limit , some questionable feature, this is not
content, this is scientific exchange that is only good for science
and for knowledge and improves that content. In conclusion,
selecting the magazine obviously has become a so difficult matter in
this extent of journals and strategy and also limitations are
always possible but the content is the first necessary requirement.
This is my modest opinion. Of course, on wjns never I have found
limits in their procedure . Was the society founded with other
purpose? may be and also may not be. I know with certainty that I
found it on Pub Med ... and I went to read its Editorial Boarda and
I submitted.
Elio Conte
Feb 22, 2016, 1:15:36 PM2/22/16
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Sorry Theodore... my e-mail started and I had not the time to
conclude. I said you that I found wjns on Pub. Med. Do you see how
strange is our condition? From one hand you find it on Pub. Med
from the other hand you find your links. Good curent time?!.
Il 22/02/2016 18:15, Theodore Hoppe ha
scritto:
Elio Conte
Feb 22, 2016, 2:26:25 PM2/22/16
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Thank you Frederick, also i have great consideration and estimation
of you.
Il 22/02/2016 20:21, Frederick D
Abraham ha scritto:
Well Elio, you certainly have endeared yourself to me. Science is a passion, very personal, and for me, more of my journey/journal of learning. I know of Joe mainly from his work with Hector, and I love reading your work. You are the epitome of a good scientist, and, no doubt, a good person.
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