tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-749730248446670689.post4681983044672689363..comments2024-01-31T19:34:07.460+08:00Comments on The Cabbages of Doom: Short-cited VI: the scientific skullduggery of the citation cartelRichard Edwardshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16115218690707131186noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-749730248446670689.post-72144378772510457292012-07-12T00:16:29.783+08:002012-07-12T00:16:29.783+08:00Thomson Reuters - who calculates the impact factor...Thomson Reuters - who calculates the impact factors - has excluded Cell Transplantation and any journal that published the excessive citations. I don't know if any other journals are affected/punished. The editor for these papers with TSWJ was also an editor for CT, so that explains how it got through.Tyrionhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03176874154068152792noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-749730248446670689.post-82751745722780700782012-07-10T23:12:25.112+08:002012-07-10T23:12:25.112+08:00Interesting! I am glad to see that something is be...Interesting! I am glad to see that something is being done about it, though. How does a journal lose its Impact Factor? Who decides?Richard Edwardshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16115218690707131186noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-749730248446670689.post-13278253483918015352012-07-10T22:54:25.074+08:002012-07-10T22:54:25.074+08:00You might be interested to know that this has happ...You might be interested to know that this has happened more often: see "A Showcase of Bench-to-Bedside Regenerative Medicine at the 2010 ASNTR by David J. Eve, Cesar V. Borlongan, and Paul R. Sanberg" by now retracted from The Scientific World Journal (see http://www.tswj.com/2011/341532), which, if I have counted correctly, cites 124 papers from Cell Transplantation out of 141 cited papers, and "Regenerative Medicine for Neurological Disorders by Dong-Hyuk Park, David J. Eve, Yong-Gu Chung, and Paul R. Sanberg" with 98 out of 126, also retracted (see http://www.tswj.com/2010/463612). This actually caused the TSWJ to lose its impact factor this year. Some people have no scruples whatsoever.Tyrionhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03176874154068152792noreply@blogger.com