Re: Another candidate for a bad English predatory spam award
David Wojick
Or maybe what we need is yet another journal impact metric!—-this from Richard Poynder’s tweet: https://twitter.com/rickypo/status/1553987139859353600?s=21&t=QkzZrRaoqoMNFnDQLyliLA--
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On Aug 2, 2022, at 6:02 PM, Glenn Hampson <gham...@nationalscience.org> wrote:
Not sure that’s true either because Clarivate uses one dataset for all calculations—self-counts may not be accurate—but I defer to the publishing experts here. In any event, as Lisa just tweeted (https://twitter.com/lisalibrarian/status/1554071262246445057?s=21&t=QkzZrRaoqoMNFnDQLyliLA) this focus on JIFs was supposed to disappear in the OA age. Hardly.
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On Aug 2, 2022, at 5:04 PM, David Wojick <dwo...@craigellachie.us> wrote:
It may be a trademark violation but it can still be accurate.
David--Well, technically, no. The Journal Impact Factor is a trademarked product that is owned and operated by Clarivate. There are no personal impact factors (well, there are, but they aren’t official JIFs). Also, only journals listed in the Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE) and the Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI) receive an Impact Factor from Clarivate. So, if a journal is making one up, they aren’t listed. Which isn’t at all to say they’re predatory---just that they’re too new, too small, or too insignificant (relatively speaking) to merit having an “actual” JIF. It’s a wildly abused and misused metric that we’ve complained about forever, but it doesn’t appear to be going anywhere soon.
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This is true except some non-indexed journals calculate their own impact factor, which may be accurate.
David
On Aug 2, 2022, at 6:12 PM, Alicia Fatima Gomez <in...@aliciafgomez.com> wrote:
Dear all,
a very usual sign for predatory journals is to add a fake impact factors. This is one of those cases. Besides the fact that they want "your acknowledgment within 24 hrs"...
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On 2022-08-01 16:25, David Wojick wrote:
Maybe not as bad as the last one. Runner up?
David
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David Wojick
Glenn Hampson
Again deferring to the experts here but there’s a “right” way to calculate the JIF and a whole bunch of “different” ways (e.g., technically, the citation counts for JIFs are only drawn from JCR, not from any/everywhere). So, for researchers who feel attracted to higher-impact venues (that would be most researchers), it may be important for them to understand why a 1.5 will be different for an OMICS journal than a Scopus journal. These two journals do NOT have the same “impact.” Also, Angela’s Scholarly Kitchen post from last week notes that Clarivate is expanding the inclusion list for issuing JIFs: The End of Journal Impact Factor Purgatory (and Numbers to the Thousandths) - The Scholarly Kitchen (sspnet.org).
I’m definitely not supporting impact factors or their use here---just noting that since they ARE used, it’s important not to gloss over the differences.