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Inferring the Causal Effect of Journals on Citations

Inferring the Causal Effect of Journals on Citations

Articles in high-impact journals are by definition more highly cited on average. But are they cited more often because the articles are somehow "better"? Or are they cited more often simply because they appeared in a high-impact journal?

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.