Attitudes of Academic Elites towards Scientific Journals in the Media Compared to the Impact Factor

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 29-49
Keyword(s):  
Impact Factor ◽  
Scientific Journals ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Impact

scholarly journals Manuscript Formatting, Delayed Peer-reviews, and Overemphasizing the Impact Factor: Can Something be Done?

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vijay Kothari
Keyword(s):  
Impact Factor ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Scientific Journals ◽  
Peer Reviews ◽  
The Impact

This article points towards the uselessness of putting too much emphasis on formatting requirements by scientific journals, and also that of Impact Factor (IF); besides discussing the negative impact of delayed peer-reviews, along with possible ways of accelerating it.

scholarly journals Trends in the Impact Factor of Scientific Journals

2006 ◽  
Vol 81 (10) ◽  
pp. 1401-1402 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew E. Falagas ◽  
George M. Zouglakis ◽  
Paraskevi A. Papastamataki
Keyword(s):  
Impact Factor ◽  
Scientific Journals ◽  
The Impact

Publication process

2016 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Impact Factor ◽  
Research Process ◽  
Research Field ◽  
Scientific Journals ◽  
Final Phase ◽  
The Past ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Objective Indicators

The final phase in the research process is the publication of research findings in a paper in scientific journals. Authors who contributed to the developed work are reported in the manuscript. There are now rules and guidelines to help in improving the transparency for the reporting of authorship and contributorship in papers which are discussed in this chapter The appraisal of the quality of scientific and medical can be difficult. Criteria that had been used in the past included journal prestige, the reputation of authors and institution and prestige and estimated importance and relevance of the research field. However, these factors are both qualitative and subjective. Consequently, there is demand for quatitative and objective indicators for evaluating research that is related to published science. The impact factor is perhaps the most widely used indicator that measures and quantifies a journal’s quality.

scholarly journals Academic anesthesiologists’ views on the importance of the impact factor of scientific journals: a North American and European survey

2001 ◽  
Vol 48 (10) ◽  
pp. 953-957 ◽  
Author(s):  
Argyro Fassoulaki ◽  
Constantine Sarantopoulos ◽  
Kostantinos Papilas ◽  
Konstantinos Patris ◽  
Aikaterini Melemeni
Keyword(s):  
Impact Factor ◽  
North American ◽  
Scientific Journals ◽  
European Survey ◽  
The Impact

scholarly journals The impact factor and psychiatry journals: an international perspective

2017 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 15-18 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sundararajan Rajagopal
Keyword(s):  
Impact Factor ◽  
International Perspective ◽  
Scientific Journals ◽  
Academic Journals ◽  
Key Aspects ◽  
The Impact

The impact factor (IF) is a metric for assessing academic journals. Despite its shortcomings, the IF is the preeminent yardstick by which the quality of scientific journals is determined. In this paper, the key aspects of the IF are covered from an international perspective, with a specific emphasis on psychiatry journals.

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