Journal of Citation Reports, was Status of Merendera
Hannon (Wed, 19 Nov 2008 07:46:19 PST)
Any journal that is "most cited" is also likely to be more generalized. This
factor is independent of quality of research, which may be as high or higher
in less circulated, specialized periodicals.
Dylan Hannon
On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 10:21 PM, Pacific Rim <paige@hillkeep.ca> wrote:
Max Withers refers to ISI JSR -- :-) -- for the rest of us, the Journal of
Citation Reports.
It's at
http://thomsonreuters.com/products_services/….
I confess that when I mentioned the status of publications, I was not
thinking statistically.
For anyone who wants to consult ISI JCR, an immediate problem is that (as
with other online references that try to make a profit) if one lacks an
institutional subscription one must either pay to get in or corrupt a
friend
with the entry code. This has to do with the ownership of knowledge.
A deeper problem is the definition of knowledge. "Sources most cited" might
not be the most accurate. Surely accuracy counts most. Copernicus said in
the 16th century that Earth circles the Sun. Until then, for millennia,
most
savants had imagined, or repeated, that the Sun circles Earth. "Sources
most
cited" in the 16th century would not have highlighted Copernicus. Habit,
fashion, ignorance, sycophancy, doziness, fear for one's life: nonsense is
repeated for many reasons.
This said, from time to time I read the "most cited" journals that Max
mentions. When I can gain access to them. ;-)
Paige Woodward
paige@hillkeep.ca
http://www.hillkeep.ca/
----- Original Message -----
From: "Max Withers" <maxwithers@gmail.com>
To: <pbs@lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Tuesday, November 18, 2008 2:23 PM
Subject: Re: [pbs] Status of Merendera
A professional could probably answer this easily, but a quick look at
ISI JSR (which determines the "impact factors" of scientific journals,
basically by the frequency of cited articles) shows that Taxon has the
highest factor (2.524) of any journal devoted specifically to
systematics. Systematic Botany (NYBG) is 1.632; Botanical Journal of the
Linnean Society is 1.075. They don't cover Bot. Jb. fur Systematik.
The Annual Review of Plant Biology has the highest impact factor in the
plant sciences, at 18.712, but all the rest are below 10. Nature, by
contrast, is 28.751.
Max Withers
Oakland CA
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