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Comment on Two Publishers Both Publish Many of the Same Journals by Slawek

News by DESTECH of Lancaster, PA: “2016 2nd International Conference on Humanity and Social Science (ICHSS2016) www ichss2016 com […] All the ICHSS2016 accepted papers will be published by DEStech...

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Comment on Dead Metrics by lorenzoiorio2014

At least in my case, Google Scholar returns a h-index of 34, close to NASA/ADS (35). Nonetheless, I’ve noticed that Google Scholar seems to fail to capture several citations which I have in ADS.

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Comment on Dead Metrics by BGranville

Just because the Impact Factor often fails, doesn’t mean the alternatives are any better. All have their flaws, so what difference does it make which metric is used? Might as well stick with the one...

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Comment on Dead Metrics by Barry

When applying for research grants from the Taiwan the Ministry of Science and Technology, the Ministry takes into consideration a researcher’s previous publications that are indexed in the following:...

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Comment on List of Predatory Publishers 2014 by Laura Montani

Hi I have just received an invitation to participate as editor for an Henry-publishing-group Journal. Any comment on this? Txs a lot for your (free) work :-)

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Comment on Dead Metrics by David Stern (@sterndavidi)

We are using SNIP as the preferred impact factor at my school as it is comparable across disciplines. We are now moving towards SJR as it has become more reliable, as a recursive index is a better...

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Comment on Dead Metrics by Ahmad Hassanat

I personally do not believe in any metric, they all have their pros and cons, none is perfect, as none is telling the truth about the researchers. It is one paper that I am seeking, that one, which...

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Comment on Dead Metrics by regcheck

This does not seem to be a scientific approach to the problem. Why give the incumbent a presumption of validity when there appears to be ample evidence that it has poor quality? Research fairly...

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Comment on Is SciELO a Publication Favela? by nobodydoit

Dear Jeffrey Beall, there are lives beyond USA! Best regards!

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Comment on Dead Metrics by RL

I agree with you, Sir, Beall! All these metrics, including the impact factor, should be dead because they do more harm than good to science, but also because they are unreliable. Quotes: 1) “In their...

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Comment on Dead Metrics by Ghazal

Dear Mr Beall You seem to be unfamiliar with the concept of SJR. SCImago Journal Rank (SJR) is a prestige metric based on the idea that ‘all citations are not created equal’. Citations are weighted,...

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Comment on List of Predatory Publishers 2014 by sondang manik

I hate you.. I’ve tried to publish my paper for 5 times and I failed ..to get my approval . anyone who publishes in a fake journal and doesn’t realize it deserves any disadvantages which result from...

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Comment on Beall’s List of Predatory Publishers 2015 by Jeffrey Beall

It’s published by a firm called SciTechnol. This publisher is on my list, so I recommend you not send any articles to this journal

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Comment on List of Predatory Publishers 2014 by Jeffrey Beall

Please check the lists.

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Comment on List of Predatory Publishers 2014 by Jeffrey Beall

Not that I know of.

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Comment on Dead Metrics by Weekend reads: What do PhDs earn?; university...

[…] metrics: Why won’t these go away? asks Jeffrey […]

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Comment on Beall’s List of Predatory Publishers 2015 by Jeffrey Beall

Thank you for alerting me to this publisher. I have analyzed it and added it to my list. I recommend that you <strong>not</strong> submit any papers to its journals and instead find a...

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Comment on Dead Metrics by wimcrusio

Any measure that tries to reduce someone’s research impact to a single number is bound to be a tremendous oversimplification. As an aside, in France the h-index is alive and well and often asked for...

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Comment on Dead Metrics by Ahmad Hassanat

Agree

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Comment on Dead Metrics by bill

Interesting articles – thanks. An LSE blog post describing a study which correlates h-index values with academic positions in the social sciences (lecturer, senior lecturer, professor) is also worth a...

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