Andrej Bauer wrote:
In many countries, Slovenia included, the SCI is used in a formal way in government funding decisions, as well as in decisions about promotions at our university. My colleagues and I in Ljubljana simply must publish in journals that are on the SCI index, otherwise the publication is hardly recognized at all ('8 points' for top half of SCI versus '2 points' for being in Math Reviews). To add insult to injury practically all journals on SCI are of the kind that steals our work, funded by public money, and resells it back to the public. Nobody is even attempting to explain to the government what the problem is.
If anyone has a plan on how to break the grip, I would like to hear it.
The AMS should be taking up this cause. Has anyone tried to interest them? jim
So even if I wrote papers in category theory, I would/could not publish them in TAC because it is not in SCI.
Best regards,
Andrej