Re: predatory journals and conferences article in NY Times

IIRC, impact factor was only ever intended as an heuristic for librarians
when making marginal decisions over which journals to subscribe to on
behalf of their institution. Everything else is but mission creep.

All the best,


Leon


On 23 April 2013 12:38, Phillip Lord <phillip.lord@newcastle.ac.uk> wrote:

>
> It's high time universities stopped judging academics by *where* they
> have published rather than *what*.
>
> We already have a form of rating for journals. It's called impact
> factor. It doesn't work, because judging papers by their place of
> publication is nonsensical.
>
> Linked data and semantic web technologies provide opportunities, I
> think, to handle the metadata associated with scientific publication, to
> represent the knowledge in academic publications, and to do so without
> the necessity for a centralised authority.
>
> But, then I am a researcher with a metanl narrow focus, so what do I
> know?
>
> Phil
>
> ProjectParadigm-ICT-Program <metadataportals@yahoo.com> writes:
> > This is a problem which manifests itself in every discipline and it
> preys on
> > basic human needs for recognition. The current publishing world of
> academia
> > itself is to blame partially.
> >
> > Because in each field of science scientists and researchers usually have
> a
> > short list of peer-reviewed journals and conferences in their mental
> narrow
> > focus, only librarians typically have a (often not much) better overview
> of
> > available reputable journals and conferences in respective fields.
> >
> > It is high time for a global registry of scientific publishers and their
> > respective journals and a form of rating and grading them.
> >
> > Linked data and semantic web technologies provide opportunities to
> create such
> > rating and grading systems, and maybe an item for a separate W3C
> Community
> > Group?
> >
> >
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