There is an entertaining rumour going around about the journal Nature Communications. When I heard it for the fourth or fifth time, I decided to check out whether there is any truth in it. The rumour goes something like this: the impact factor of Nature Communications is driven by physical sciences papers. Sometimes it is […]
Tag: JIF
Five Get Over Excited: Academic papers that cite quantixed posts
Anyone that maintains a website is happy that people out there are interested enough to visit. Web traffic is one thing, but I take greatest pleasure in seeing quantixed posts being cited in academic papers. I love the fact that some posts on here have been cited in the literature more than some of my […]
If I Can’t Change Your Mind
I have written previously about Journal Impact Factors (here and here). The response to these articles has been great and earlier this year I was asked to write something about JIFs and citation distributions for one of my favourite journals. I agreed and set to work. Things started off so well. A title came straight to mind. In the […]
Throes of Rejection: No link between rejection rates and impact?
I was interested in the analysis by Frontiers on the lack of a correlation between the rejection rate of a journal and the “impact” (as measured by the JIF). There’s a nice follow here at Science Open. The Times Higher Education Supplement also reported on this with the line that “mass rejection of research papers by […]
Wrong Number: A closer look at Impact Factors
This is a long post about Journal Impact Factors. Thanks to Stephen Curry for encouraging me to post this. tl;dr the JIF is based on highly skewed data it is difficult to reproduce the JIFs from Thomson-Reuters JIF is a very poor indicator of the number of citations a random paper in the journal received reporting […]