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Where to check free of charge the impact factors of all journals
Where can one check free of charge the impact factors of all journals? jcr.clarivate.com seems to be one but it's not open to those with no subscription. Many other sources only show other metrics but ...
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How to find if a paper is in top 10% most cited articles in a journal?
I saw in some applications that some researchers state that their papers are in top 10% most cited articles, but they never state how they calculated this. I have tried Web of Knowledge and there are ...
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Is there a list of the largest academic journal publishers, ordered by the number of journals they publish?
One can manually browse through scholarly publishers' websites and see the number of journals they publish, such as:
Elsevier: ca. 4.330 journals
SAGE: ca. 1.200 journals
Inderscience: ca. 430 ...
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Curious case of self-citations and how to monitor self-citers?
If one looks superficially at the publications of author X, he seems to be one of the top scientists in his field. But looking more closely his citations are 60% from himself 35% from his co-author, ...
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Historical impact factors of journals
Is there any database/resource/website providing the full historical impact factors of a journal?
Scimago gives graphs of citations (kinda IF), but it only backs to 1999. I look for a database having ...
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If my papers are always accepted, should I submit future papers to journals more diffficult to get published in?
I have written several papers, all of them got accepted (by different journals) with only minor (or even very minor) revisions. Naturally, I am happy about having my research published, especially ...
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Is it good to have all the PhD publications in one journal
I have two papers published in a APS journal and another paper just got accepted to the same journal (the journal is a reputed one in my field). It has been almost two years for my PhD. So I have ...
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How to cite a drug name in AMA Style journal article?
In my paper, I have used a drug name called Metformin. But I received a comment from Editor to cite the drug name.
May I know how can I cite the drug name in AMA style?
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What are the super cool tricks to getting published in high impact journals?
I am starting a post-doc in Cognitive Neuroscience and I am interested in publishing my work in high impact journals (e.g., Nature, Science, Behavioral and Brain Science). I have already published ...
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How is the Scimago journal ranking (Q1-Q4) defined?
What does it mean that a journal is ranked Q1 according to Scimago Journal and Country Rank?
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What is the relationship between impact factor and journal ranking
As a second year graduate student, it's become increasingly difficult for me to figure out what journals are the most prestigious. My research is very interdisciplinary, and so journals from many ...
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What % of publications should be in top quartile journals?
I've searched the forums but can't find anything specific to this question so I hope someone can help. Recently I've been told that I need to better strategise my publishing as I'm not publishing in ...
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Is it important to publish my article in a journal indexed on Thomson ISI?
If a journal is not indexed this way, is it an academically honorable one?
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How do I get published in Nature or Science?
I'm a fairly new chemical engineering graduate student. I've been doing research for one semester so far (in molecular dynamics) and in the process have learned about journals and "impact factor" (a ...
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