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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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Does the academic community perceive letters and short articles differently from longer articles?
There are some journals that accept short articles of 2 to 4 pages.
I have submitted (and had accepted) such a letter (Cannot specifically name the letter) which is 2 pages in length but it is a SCI-...
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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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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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Journal's website states different and much higher impact factor than what I found on Scopus. What do I do?
I looked up the website of a journal where someone I know had published research. They listed their Scopus impact factor as a number that is much higher than when I searched the website of Scopus.
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Why reference articles from and/or submit articles to low impact factor journals?
I recently read this FAQ that explains a bit about impact factors. After reading, I was curious... what would be some reasons why researchers would use papers from a low-impact factor journal, say, a ...
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