According to a new study, the presence of simple hyphens in the titles of academic papers adversely affects the citation statistics, regardless of the quality of the articles. [Editor's note: please ...

The latest edition of Journal Citation Reports® 2018 has been recently published, and according to the report, 41 Bentham Science Publishers (BSP) journals have received Impact Factor ratings. Current ...

The prominent academic journal Chemosphere is the latest title to lose its impact factor—a metric often controversially used to evaluate researchers and their work—after retracting a series of papers ...

The impact factor, a decades-old metric that purports to measure the quality of journals, is a bit like a corrupt bureaucrat: overly powerful, largely incompetent, and widely feared. But the bureau ...

The latest edition of Journal Citation Reports® 2019 has been published recently, and according to the report, Bentham Science Publishers (BSP) journals have significantly improved their Impact ...

The tide is turning against the impact factor —one of publishing’s most contentious metrics — and its outsized impact on science. Calculated by various companies and promoted by publishers, journal ...

Recently launched OA journals recognized for quality in latest Journal Citation Reports™ PISCATAWAY, N.J., 27 July 2023 -- IEEE, the world’s largest technical professional organization advancing ...

With an ever-growing roster of specialized scientific publications out there, how are scientists, funding agencies, and academic institutions supposed to decide which ones to take seriously? Anyone in ...