Jan 1, 2007
PLoS ONE Impact Factor
UPDATE: June 19, 2009: ISI will publish its latest stash of impact factors on the evening of the 19th. We will hopefully find out then whether or not a PLoS ONE impact factor will be made public, and just how well it is rating relative to the traditional journals.
Until recently, online scientific journals were really just e-versions of the printed copy. Of course, we had advance publication online and ToC alerts etc, but now Public Library of Science will publish a general science journal to rival Science and Nature that covers primary research results from all areas of science. Unique to the new format is the use of both pre- and post-publication peer review, which are set to revolutionize the way the scientific literature evolves.
PLoS co-founder Harold Varmus says, “For those of us who have been engaged with PLoS from its conception, the launch of PLoS ONE is tremendously exciting—this is the moment when we seize the full potential of the Internet to make communication of research findings an interactive and fully accessible process that gives greater value to what we do as scientists.”
It has launched with publication of 100 peer-reviewed research articles peer-reviewed under the guidance of an extensive academic editorial board, and covering molecular science and clinical studies with topics including the evolution of language, the control of rabies, mimicry of jumping spiders, and Alzheimer’s disease.
Every article published is under an open access license, which means everyone is free to read, reuse, and build upon these research papers.
One of the key selling points is the possibility of almost instantaneous publication with virtually zero delay between submission and publication. As soon as a paper is published a dialog between author and reader is opened.
PLoS launched in “beta” in December, 2007 could see big changes in the way the scientific literature evolves.
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Is there any official IF for PLOS One yet?
Elena
Yes, maybe there’s some politicotechnical reason for that PLOS ONE has not been assigned a SCI IF in 2008 because the yonger journal PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases has been assigned one. Fair play?
It hasn’t been listed yet, as far as I know. I guess everyone was hoping it would be, but it’s still a relatively young publication…or maybe there’s some politicotechnical reason…
JCR 2008 has just been released and I cannot find any impact factor for PLoS ONE.
Does someone knows why?
Journal Impact Factor
= measure of the citations to science and social science journals
JIF is regarded as “the science of rating scientists and their research”
What does JIF have to do with “the science of rating scientists and their research”?
This is another glaring sad example of the prostituting, by the sience establishment guild of the 20th century Technology Culture, of the terms science, scientist and research.
I am asked if I have a better suggestion on how to rate scientists and research.
I do not pretend to have any suggestion on how now to scientifically rate scientists and research.
The present science establishment is, IMO, widely-deeply cancered with the malignant 20th century Technology Culture, of which public rating is one symptom. Tackling only this one single symptom would be a very difficult task.
My most probably hopeless approach is to stir the stagnant water and initiate evolutionary changes that would eventually re-place science, scientists and research where Western culture departed from Enlightenment circa 100 years ago, when it dealt with the essence of nature and life evolutions, and elected to become a pierced-ear slave (Ex.21, 6) to the Technology Culture .
IMO it is vitally important for now charting the course of our society to learn and understand, to analyse and assess, with a scientism perspective, the evolution and collapse of the Technology Culture and the implications, within it, of the bare survival of basic classical science, of the further comprehension of our place and fate in the universe.
Respectfully suggesting,
Dov Henis
(Comments From The 22nd Century)
Updated Life’s Manifest May 2009
http://www.physforum.com/index.php?showtopic=14988&st=495&#entry412704