My daughter (who works for the Nature Publishing Group) sent me the following, which is worth reading for knowing the kind of journals Elsevier publishes. Follow the link to John Baez' blog (from which the comments are taken): http://golem.ph.utexas.edu/category/2008/11/the_case_of_m_s_el_naschie.html or just go directly there and save the middle man. I assume that this journal is indexed by ISI. Good grief, imagine that granting agencies are taking that crock of dung seriously. Michael ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2008 16:34:16 -0500 (EST) From: Rebecca Barr <rmbarr@pipeline.com> To: Michael Barr <barr@math.mcgill.ca> Subject: Elsevier quality control... http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2008/12/22/publish_your_work_the_easy_w...
Hi Mike! This is scary, particularly since our Research Evaluation in the UK is moving from peer review to citation-based metrics. Maybe this will prove useful fodder for our arguments against reliance on Thomson ... CHAOS SOLITONS & FRACTALS is indeed covered : http://scientific.thomsonreuters.com/cgi-bin/jrnlst/jlresults.cgi?PC=MASTER&Word=chaos CHAOS SOLITONS & FRACTALSSemimonthlyISSN: 0960-0779PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD, THE BOULEVARD, LANGFORD LANE, KIDLINGTON, OXFORD, ENGLAND, OX5 1GB • Coverage • Science Citation Index • Science Citation Index Expanded • Current Contents - Physical, Chemical & Earth Sciences Best wishes for the new year, Michael Fourman On 31 Dec 2008, at 01:04, Michael Barr wrote:
My daughter (who works for the Nature Publishing Group) sent me the following, which is worth reading for knowing the kind of journals Elsevier publishes. Follow the link to John Baez' blog (from which the comments are taken): http://golem.ph.utexas.edu/category/2008/11/the_case_of_m_s_el_naschie.html or just go directly there and save the middle man.
I assume that this journal is indexed by ISI. Good grief, imagine that granting agencies are taking that crock of dung seriously.
Michael
---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2008 16:34:16 -0500 (EST) From: Rebecca Barr <rmbarr@pipeline.com> To: Michael Barr <barr@math.mcgill.ca> Subject: Elsevier quality control...
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Michael Fourman wrote, mf> ... Research Evaluation in the UK is moving from peer review to citation-based metrics. More automation, more technological complexity, more resources consumed. Less substance. Ie. decreasing efficiency in human endeavour. A trend throughout the industrialized world since about 1950 and so sign of the trend changing. Regards, ... Peter E. -- http://members.shaw.ca/peasthope/ http://carnot.yi.org/ = http://carnot.pathology.ubc.ca/
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