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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Is there an independent oversight body of Journal Impact Factors?
I have read many questions on this site that relate to Journal impact factors, for example, in relation to how that may affect where to publish etc.
I am wondering is there an independent oversight ...
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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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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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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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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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How can I judge whether an alternative "impact factor" is from an accepted and genuine source?
So I was wondering whether the SJIF (Scientific Journal Impact Factor) calculation was authentic and accepted.
How can someone identify whether an alternative impact factor is generally accepted and ...
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