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Comment on Misleading Metrics by Alex SL

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This is a good addition to the site but I am wondering about criteria 2, 3 and 5 because they also apply to Thompson Reuters. And yes, correct me if I am wrong, but that appears to include criterion 3. As long as more journals have themselves added to Web of Science each year, <a href="http://phylobotanist.blogspot.com.au/2013/11/inflation-in-citation-metrics.html" rel="nofollow">it is a logical necessity that most scores go up</a> even if the actual number of citations doesn't change, for the simple reason that only citations in those journals that are part of the list are counted to calculate the scores for the journals on the list. There is no cheating involved, it is just the mechanics of how the scores are calculated, and they will stop increasing once the number of journals on the list plateaus. It is thus hard to use this criterion to identify predatory ranking providers.

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