Jun 27, 2017 | Academic Trends
Five months after Jeffrey Beall shut down his widely consulted blog that listed predatory journals and publishers, Cabell’s International launched Cabell’s Blacklist, a list of predatory journals, on June 15. Read...
Jun 26, 2017 | Academic Trends
From the press release: The 2017 release, with 2016 citation data for literature within the sciences and social sciences, features 11,459 journal listings in 236 disciplines; 81 countries are represented. A total of 132 journals received their first JIF. Below, top...
Jan 2, 2017 | Academic Trends
This year’s release covers “articles published between 2011 and 2015, both inclusive. The metrics are based on citations from all articles that were indexed in Google Scholar in June 2016. This also includes citations from articles that are not...
Jan 2, 2017 | Academic Trends
Altmetric released its annual Top 100 list of published research papers that have generated significant online attention and discussion from all over the world, including from post-publication peer-review forums, patient advocacy groups, mainstream news media, and...
Feb 11, 2016 | Academic Trends
In this article from The Scholarly Kitchen, Phil Davis makes a suggestion for an algorithm driven process in determining what makes an item citatable or not. The goal would be to remove human bias as much as possible in selecting what Thomson Reuters considers a...
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