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Does Impact Factor reflect the quality of a journal?
Is the impact factor really useful for judging the quality of a journal article?
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Towards a Stackexchange-like comment/reputation system for research papers
We have had quite a few discussions on how to gauge the quality of research papers and academic journals. The consensus is that it is tough to identify a single metric which could reveal this quality ...
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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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When should I publish in interdisciplinary versus subject-specific scientific journals?
Most science research is published in subject-specific journals, of which there are many. However, there are a relatively small number of interdisciplinary journals, some of which are the most highly ...
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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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Strategy for submission of articles to highly ranked journals
I am working on a research project that all total will probably end up lasting about two years. As the research progresses, I am writing articles about each new discovery/study, with each article ...
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Is the reputation/prestige of the scientific journals where you published a paper really important?
Excuse me for the naive question, but is the reputation/prestige of the journal you chose for your publication really important?
In the end, I believe the scientific content of your paper must be the ...
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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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Which quantitative metrics are there of the quality and prestige of journals, and how do they compare?
I have seen several different metrics that are applied for ranking journals: Impact Factor, SJR, and H-index. Which of these is the most useful and robust for comparisons with respect to the quality ...
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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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Where to find journal impact factors stripped of self-citation?
Where can I find a database of impact factors where self-citation has been removed? A journal's self-citations are defined as those citations by that journal's papers towards other papers in the same ...
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Is there any relation between them like ESCI is less than SCIE and SCIE is less than SCI?
I am having a hard time figuring out the difference between excellent,good,average and bad journals.
I checked this link http://mjl.clarivate.com/ from where I figured out about ESCI,SCI,SCIE ...
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