Comments on: PLoS ONE Impact Factor and Page Rank

By: David Bradley

David Bradley — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 09:09:11 +0000

Thanks for the update Bjoern.

By: Bjoern Brembs

Bjoern Brembs — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 07:47:04 +0000

As of January this year, Thomson Reuters is listing PLoS One and thus it will have an IF soon.

Personally, I think this is deplorable as the IF is negotiated, irreproducible and not mathematically sound. Even if it were not negotiable, reproducible and mathematically sound, any journal rank is still nonsense as where you publish doesn’t matter – what you publish matters. Journal rank is bogus, opium for the scientists.

By: David Bradley

David Bradley — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 07:37:41 +0000

There could be many technical reasons why a particular journal is not given an IF. Judge the journal on its own merits.

By: saravana

saravana — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 06:53:18 +0000

If PLoS ONE is not getting any impactor factor (IF) from ISI, then there should not be any respite for this journal till it gets IF. I can not accept that it desrves to have similar impact of PLoS Journals.

By: Adnan

Adnan — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 19:23:20 +0000

PLoS ONE desrve to have similar impact of PLoS Journals, not less.

By: singh

singh — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 18:00:35 +0000

It needs to get good publications inorder to get the high ranks.

By: Andrew Spong

Andrew Spong — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 07:25:25 +0000

Nice comment from @mrgunn re @sciencebase PLoS ONE Impact Factor & Page rank article http://is.gd/4MDoQ (cc @drs1969)

By: Andrew Spong

Andrew Spong — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 05:44:23 +0000

PLoS ONE Impact Factor and Page Rank http://ow.ly/z3XP (via @brembs)

By: Mr. Gunn

Mr. Gunn — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 16:32:01 +0000

Seeing the 80/20 rule rear its head above put me in mind of Clay Shirky's TED talk, which I just saw yesterday. Basically, he says that institutions (like ISI) are happy to get 80% of the rank from 20% of the journals, but a non-institutional ranking (via aggregated user activity on academic bookmarking sites such as Mendeley, for example) could capture all the ranking input without incurring the cost ISI does to do it as an institution. In summary, ISI's impact factor is now an anachronism. We just don't need them anymore. You can get better ranking without having a whole organization devoted to compiling it and making people wait 2 years for the privilege of paying to see it.

By: Anibal

Anibal — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 13:54:58 +0000

RT: @Berci PLoS ONE Impact Factor and Page Rank http://ff.im/-aV969