Journalism - Science topic

I agree with the worth of SCOPUS Indexing as far as quality and the standard is considered

Ashok Paranjothi

Dear Ljubomir Jacić Interesting indeed. Would be interesting to see if their "Journal Checker Chatbot" is able to identify the hijacked version of the MSW Management journal.

Unfortunately you need to use Telegram (Personally I do not want to use this), but curious to see if someone is willing to test it.

Best regards.

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Thanks for sharing the Dr Wojciech Szewko example. Informed, public-service commentary will always be challenging - yet, so vital - whatever a commentator's implied ideology. Also challenging will be interventions to regulate harmful algorithms or lies. Spontaneous or manufactured backlashes can be virulent against legislative or personal interventions. For example, well organized disinformation deniers have successfully mounted successful efforts to suppress or harm academics and institutions studying disinformation.

A potentially helpful perspective in these times may be Bertrand Russell's observations that "Government is a necessary but not sufficient condition for the greatest realizable degree of individual liberty... But if government is not to be tyrannical, it must be democratic, and the democracy must feel that the common interests of [hu]mankind are more important than the conflicting interests of separate groups." (Russell: p. 449)

Democracy will always remain a contested concept (Hanson: pp. 23-24) and genuine debate on public concerns, likewise. With bravado or defiance, autocrat-propagandists in the United States often falsely claim their speech is protected under The First Amendment–which does not apply for speech advancing particular illegal activity. This includes lies that "...unambiguously have no or little social value...and also cause cognizable harms (as well as sometimes yielding undeserved benefits for the liar)... [which includes] ...fraud, perjury, ...and making false statements to public officials." (Chen: p. 703) For sure, it’s well past time for more action than scholars or pundits rightly pointing this out.

For an interesting, practical overview of one nation's more comprehensive initiatives to address disinformation (beyond the better known efforts in Finland, Sweden, or Estonia), see on ResearchGate:

References

Chen, Alan K. and Justin Marceau (2018), “Developing a Taxonomy of Lies under The First Amendment,” University of Colorado Law Review, 89, p. 703, for U.S. Federal law governing limits to free speech, as interpreted in the ruling from United States v. Alvarez, 567 U.S. 709 (2012), with discussion of the limited ability to restrict lies, see: https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/567/709/

Hanson, Russel (1985), The Democratic Imagination in America: Conversations with Our Past, Princeton: Princeton University Press

Oliveiria, Ana Filipa, Margarida Maneta, Maria José Brites (2024), "How is Portugal addressing disinformation? Results of a mapping of initiatives (2010-2023)," Observatorio (OBS*), 18(5), pp. 158-174, https://obs.obercom.pt/index.php/obs/article/view/2444

Russell, Bertrand (1940), "Freedom and Government," pp. 438-449, [first published in Freedom: Its Meaning, edited by Ruth Nanda Anshen, published by Harcourt, Brace and Company, New York in 1940], https://russell.humanities.mcmaster.ca/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/10-58.pdf

what about his impact factor and indexing?

Indian Journal of Fibre & Textile Research (IJFTR)

تحليل المحتوى وليس تحليل الخطاب. محتوى الإعلام صار وسيلة قبل أن يكون خطاب، فالوسائل تحمل محتويات تنتظر التحليل أكثر من احتياج اللفظ للمعاينة والمعالجة.

I have also encountered this issue previously, and it was resolved in a different manner.

Thank you for sharing this new perspective; it's helpful!

I received a most unusual (looks like machine-generated) email from a Dr. Marisol G Hale ("Chief Author") inviting to publish in the Global Journal of Science Frontier Research, a long rigmarole that ended with a request for my "WhatsApp number." Message deleted.

For those still interested. I conquer what is said by about INNSPUB. See my replies here on RG:

and https://www.researchgate.net/post/Are-these-journals-Journal-of-Biodiversity-and-Environmental-Sciences-International-Journal-of-Biosciences-indexed-in-SCOPUS-or-Thomson-Reuters

Best regards.

yes, they will combine vouchers of all authors in the paper and deduct from the APC

Here are the distinctions between the terms:

1. Article: A broad term that can refer to any written piece published in a magazine, newspaper, or online. Articles are generally written for a general audience and can cover various topics, including news, opinion, features, and more.

2. Journal Paper: A scholarly article published in an academic journal. These papers are typically peer-reviewed and contribute to a specific field of study. They present original research, review existing research, or discuss theoretical concepts.

3. Research Paper: A detailed document presenting original research findings. It can be published in journals, presented at conferences, or used as part of academic coursework. Research papers include methodologies, results, and discussions on the implications of the findings.

4. Conference Paper: A scholarly paper presented at a professional conference. These papers are often peer-reviewed and selected for presentation. They may later be published in conference proceedings or journals. Conference papers are usually shorter and more preliminary than full journal papers.

In summary:

- An article is a general term for any published piece.

- A journal paper is a peer-reviewed article in an academic journal.

- A research paper presents original research findings.

- A conference paper is presented at a conference and may be published in proceedings.

If the journal you going to submit is including in STM Permission Guidelines (PG) Signatory, then you can choose "Publisher" in "I am a/an..." option, then find the corresponding publisher of your expected journal in "Publisher name...".

Right now, STM Permission Guidelines (PG) Signatory including many publisher like Springer Nature, Royal Society of Chemistry, etc.

Why was my message (proposal) sent to the e-mail address autorquery@elsevier.com rejected?

Tobias Stern well, I have 7 reviewers going through my paper, I dont know what to expect with this massive number

Thank you Deborah Macêdo dos Santos

Paulo Sergio Panse Silveira

yes, I used \citet{} instead of \cite for et.al. type citations. Another solution is to completely remove their citations and use biblatex, it take like 15 minutes.

I am very happy to know that Professor Lipsey is going well and observing ResearchGate.

I just received a similar email,

and what made me especially angry was that they claimed to have an impact factor, which would mean that they are being listed by Web of Science. That is definitely not the case. At their website they specify that what they call "impact factor" is their own calculation based on Google Scholar.

The predatory journal scene is getting more and more ruthless it seems.

Here's a copy of the email I received:

"Dear Dr. Eerik Soares Mantere,

Greetings!

Hope you are doing well.

Journal of Gerontology & Geriatric Medicine is a bimonthly Journal with Impact Factor 1.5*

We would be more grateful if you can submit a short review or a short commentary (or any type of article) related to your previous Article entitled “A protocol for a systematic review of social dimensions of resilience in older adults”

It would be great if you could submit in June. So that I could process it for the Upcoming Issue. I request you to submit it by June 11, 2024.

Note: We will extend the date of submission as per your convenience.

Articles can be sent to gerontology@heraldresearch.org

Please provide me your acceptance for the same.

Warm Regards,

Mia Jasmine

Journal Coordinator | Journal of Gerontology & Geriatric Medicine (ISSN: 2381-8662)"

Congratulations. I am also engaged in research in the field of tennis. I look forward to the publication of your manuscript.

Do you have its EndNote Style?

I agree. I try to avoid publishing in journals in the Elsevier portfolio for the same reason.

"The past 20 years has seen a significant increase in articles with 500 or more authors. This increase has presented problems in terms of determining true authorship versus other types of contribution, issues with database metadata and data output, and publication length. Using items with 500+ authors deemed as mega-author titles, a total of 5,533 mega-author items were identified using InCites. Metadata about the items was then gathered from Web of Science and Scopus. Close examination of these items found that the vast majority of these covered physics topics, with medicine a far distant second place and only minor representation from other science fields...

Some solutions are offered for the problems resulting from this phenomenon..."

Hi, Joseph C Lee Wolfgang R. Dick this is one of my papers I wrote in 2021 and submitted it to this journal but the supervisor refused to publish it with my name. Now he published it with his new master student look how awful dishonesty of those dudes at China University of Petroleum (East China) is iL can‘t imagine such a bullshit academia more than this. east-squares RTM in nonorthogonal coordinates and applicati...

Asking for money after cv. not in scopus, sci data base

I think some MDPI journals are problematic. Others are pretty good, and have impact factors. But as of this writing (March 2024), they have suffered some scrutiny from Web of Science over issues like publishing too many articles and special issues (in certain journals) and having too much overlap among special issues, and some other problems. MDPI, as I understand, is working to manage these issues more carefully, though Web of Science (I have heard) has removed some otherwise pretty good journals of theirs from the Journal Citation Reports. I hope MDPI will fix these problems, but if you are going to submit to MDPI, be careful to check into your target journal carefully and see what others are saying and what they have been publishing recently.

Dear Anak,

The same publisher has pestered me with multiple emails over the past few weeks and have demanded hefty publishing fees (several thousands of USD). Further, their journals have no online footprint. They are evidently a predatory and also a fake, fraud journal. Please ignore them.

Warm regards,

Raj.

Interested

Thank you so much Sir for this information.

Finding a DOI (Digital Object Identifier) based on the journal’s name, volume, and page can be straightforward. Here are some steps you can take:

Remember that DOIs play a crucial role in scholarly communication, making it easier to retrieve and cite works. If you encounter any difficulties, consider reaching out to the journal or using Crossref to locate the DOI. Happy researching! 📚

Respected all ,

i would be interested in reviewing . Kindly pass on any opprtunities . Thank you

"Scientific publishers have started to use AI tools such as ImageTwin, ImaCheck and Proofig to help them to detect questionable images. The tools make it faster and easier to find rotated, stretched, cropped, spliced or duplicated images. But they are less adept at spotting more complex manipulations or AI-generated fakery..."

Worst Journal. Never submit to it.

Yes, they can be indexed.

"We have listened to and consulted with the community and, as a result, we have removed a restriction in order to avoid unjustly penalising reputable journals.

In November 2023, we announced new criteria for inclusion in DOAJ relating to the publication of special issues. We were pleased that community feedback on the new criteria was generally positive as a step towards ensuring that all special issues are published with adequate editorial oversight..."

Go to the Wiley Author Services website: https://authorservices.wiley.com/author-resources/Journal-Authors/Prepare-Your-Manuscript/LaTeX-templates.html (ref to )

And replace the "STIX1COL" with "STIX2COL" in "APA//wileyNJD-APA.tex" file to get two column style, which would make the first codeline:

'''

\documentclass[APA,STIX2COL]{WileyNJD-v2}

'''

dear author,

I am the assistant editor of the CSSE journal. Have you solved the issue?

Most of the trusted and indexed journals are free of charge regarding the APC.

The problem has been solved, I think it is due to the contribution of researchgate's power in reaching a wide scientific community.

Yours Sincerely

Dear Sonal M Manohar ,

Your observation has to do with the fact that starting in 2023 Clarivate assign an impact factor to journal titles indexed in their ESCI database, see the announcement here https://clarivate.com/news/clarivate-announces-changes-to-the-2023-journal-citation-reports/

While in other years numerous RG members released the latest JCR report (with either only the impact factors or with the quartile Q info as well) it seems that Clarivate effectively prohibited this possibility (since the impact factor info etc. requires a license so payment). All the (incomplete) JCR lists of last year shared here on RG lack (impact factor etc.) info about the ESCI indexed journal titles.

However the good news is that the (claimed) index in ESCI can be checked free of cost here https://mjl.clarivate.com/home If you search for a title (like Scientia Pharmaceutica) and the info confirms the ESCI indexing then you can trust the impact factor info. I never saw examples where the journals lie about this when one visits the websites of journals from serious publishers (like Elsevier, Springer Nature, Wiley and also MDPI) so the impact factor mentioned can be trusted.

Best regards.

نعم، أن إحدى مواضيع الرأسمالية اليوم هو كيف جني الأرباح من حقل العلم، ويأتي ذلك عن طريق فتح الجامعات والمعاهد والمدارس، وهدفهم الأوحد في هذا الشأن ليس لتطوير المعارف وإنما هو جني الأرباح لا غير.

1) It's authentic. Just sometimes back, my Ph.D. batchmate published her paper there.

2) I've not been able to view any previous articles, I guess it's strictly subscription-based viewing. However, Abstracts at least should have been made available.

3) After they accept papers, they ask for "Production fee", my batchmate paid around INR 9.5K

4) Decision time was 2 months for her.

I had submitted a manuscript to a journal (I am keeping it anonymous). I opted to make the preprint available online by mistake and the manuscript preprint appeared in the research square from the date of submission. The manuscript was rejected from the journal after the review process. The review process itself took more than one year. By the time, we (authors) switched to another institution and our affiliations, and our contact mail ids mentioned on the research square preprint became invalid. We noticed that the content of our preprint was copied from the research square to other repositories without any consent from us (authors). We got continuous rejections from other journals due to serious plagiarism when we tried to submit an extended version of our rejected manuscript. We regret to say that the preprint posted on the research square really became a trap that haunted us and spoiled our freedom to extend our research in the same direction and revise the manuscript. From our experience, other journals reject the manuscripts with preprints of previous journal submissions posted on the research square at editorial level itself. The name of the previous journal is clearly written on the research square preprint. As the journals get sufficiently large number of submissions, editors reject such papers at editorial level itself, to avoid further conflicts. A lot of hard work is involved in writing a research paper. It is so painful that authors are not able to submit their research work to a journal of own choice because of the issues caused by the preprint posted on the research square by mistake. We honestly request you to think twice before opting to publish preprints on research square during the manuscript submissions. Research square never removes the preprint content. They just keep the preprint content with a "Withdrawal Notification". The content will still cause problems during plagiarism checks.

JCR Impact factor 2023

Could you send me the link of reviewer certificate

I just started in the field of computational materials, and I did the same system calculations.My SCF process is always non-converging.Hope to get your guidance.Can I read the contents of your Fe3GeTe2_JXC.inp file?

Access to articles before the journal review is typically restricted, but some journals offer preprints or early access versions. You can check the specific journal's policies.

Dear Nandisha P S ,

The journal is as indicated by Harshitha Mahesh a subscription-based journal see https://link.springer.com/journal/11814 for more information. However, the journal is originally published by a Korean Society https://www.kiche.or.kr/kjche/ and if you open the already published issues and click on one of the papers you can download the paper. Making it effectively open access.

There are more journal titles in Springer’s portfolio published this way, like for example “Journal of Biosciences” where on the Springer site https://link.springer.com/journal/12038 the papers are behind a paywall while at the original publishing site https://www.ias.ac.in/Journals/Journal_of_Biosciences/ they are effectively open access. I’ve published a paper this way:

Best regards.

PS. Because of the above ‘construction’. I presume this journal is not a so-called hybrid journal (where you can opt. for open access) like for example “The Journal of Membrane Biology” https://link.springer.com/journal/232

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Fig 1. A quantum particle in a 2D infinite potential well

The basis for generating an eigen or proper matrix is the 2D matrix B with 9 equidistant free nodes as shown in Figure 2, nodes 1-9.

Note that RO=0 because PE is zero.

It is expressed by the same matrix M1 explained previously in the example of 2D thermal conduction.

Compose the proper or eigen matrix M2 as given by,

M2=M1+S(x,y)

Where S(x,y ) is a diagonal matrix and S=C1*V(x,y)

The resulting eigenmatrix M2 will be given by,

Where C1 is substituted for by the factor 1/14.

The energy eigenvector E(x,y) is equal to the principal diagonal of the matrix A which gives the following eigenvector equation,

2/14 1/4 0 1/4 0 0 0 0 0

1/4 4/14 1/4 0 1/4 0 0 0 0

0 1/4 2/14 0 0 1/4 0 0 0

1/4 0 0 4/14 1/4 0 1/4 0 0

0 1/4 0 1/4 9/14 1/4 0 1/4 0

0 0 1/4 0 1/4 4/14 0 0 1/4

0 0 0 1/4 0 0 2/14 1/4 0

0 0 0 0 1/4 0 1/4 4/14 1/4

0 0 0 0 0 1/4 0 1/4 2/14

*

[2/14  4/14  2/14  4/14  9/14  4/14  2/14  4/14  2/14]T

is equal to,

[8/49 123/392 8/49 123/392 137/196 123/392 8/49 123/392 8/49] T

Showing that the energy eigenvector is=

[2/14 4/14 2/14 4/14 9/14 4/14 2/14 4/14 2/14 ] T

with a dominant eigenvalue almost equal to 1.

The reason why we multiply the nodes 1,3,6 and 9 by the factor 2 is that these nodes are located at the four intersections of the two axes x and y where the rule E=Ex+Ey applies.

The x-oriented eigenvectors and the y-oriented eigenvectors are shown in Figure 2 in black and red lines.

Mohamed Parvees - No you are not right. ESCI journals also have impact factor.

Here is official difference between them:

According to Clarivate, 28 different criteria are used to evaluate journals and decide whether they will be included in the ESCI or the SCIE. Overall, 24 of these criteria relate to quality, while the remaining four relate to impact. Journals that meet the quality criteria are included in the ESCI, whereas journals that meet both the quality criteria and the impact criteria are listed in the SCIE.

So in fact, if you are ok with journal impact factor and and your institution does not have any special requirements (that it must be in SCI, SSCI, or SCIE) so it doesn't matter in which category is journal included.

Dear RG Members

The h-index of researchers and Impact Factor (IF) of journals are fundamentally highly dependent on “The Subject“ in which authors are working and studying papers already published in similar areas and then referring these papers in their proposed research papers to be published as quickly as possible in due course of time.

The following information shows importance of a particular subject based on the quantum of research work during defined period.

🌎Global Research tops in Medical Sciences👇

A.

Journal Citation Report - 2023: as usual Top Nine Journals belongs Medical Sciences - IF(Impact Factor):

1. CA-A CANCER JOURNAL FOR CLINICIANS (254.7)

2. LANCET (168.9)

3. NEW ENGLAND JOURNAL OF MEDICINE (158.5)

4. JAMA-JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION (120.7)

5. NATURE REVIEWS DRUG DISCOVERY (120.1)

6. NATURE REVIEWS MOLECULAR CELL BIOLOGY (112.7)

7. BMJ-British Medical Journal (105.7)

8. NATURE REVIEWS IMMUNOLOGY (100.3)

9. NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY (88.1)

Others fields:

10. Nature Reviews Materials (83.5 )

18. NATURE (64.8)

21. CHEMICAL REVIEWS (62.1)

22. SCIENCE (56.9),

Nature Energy (56.7),

REVIEWS OF MODERN PHYSICS (44.1),

Nature Reviews Earth & Environment (42.1),

Nature Electronics (34.3),

etc., ………………..

B.

World’s Top Researcher again belongs to Medical Sciences having Highest Citations and h-index(2023):

Prof. Ronald C Kessler

(age: 76 years)

Harvard Medical School

Harvard University, USA

Research interests:

Psychiatric Epidemiology

(research focuses on the precision treatment of mental illness to determine the appropriate intervention for specific patients)

1. Highest h-index: 328

2.Highest Citations:5,25,700

🌎 Research for Global Civilisation 🌏

Hope I could explain appropriately ……….

SUMRao

Dear Rukma Ramachandran As far as I can see there is this year no correct (and complete) JCR Report distributed by one of the RG members.

But since you published your paper at a trustful publisher you can fully rely on their own info:

https://www.emeraldgrouppublishing.com/journal/bij?distinct_id=%24device%3A18c3c1d66fbc2d-01dd760f47db2b8-49193101-13c680-18c3c1d66fbc2d&_gl=1*nidiob*_ga*Njg5MDcyNjkuMTcwMTgxNTYwOQ..*_ga_45RWY1YP1V*MTcwMTgxNTYwOS4xLjAuMTcwMTgxNTYwOS4wLjAuMA..&_ga=2.84091866.276597632.1701815609-68907269.1701815609

So, congrats with this paper.

Best regards.

Dear Rodney thank you so much.

When a journal is missing in RG's database, I add the bibliographic data to the abstract field (like in https://www.researchgate.net/publication/268925009 or https://www.researchgate.net/publication/344474227).

Rahim Alijani Thank you for your comments!!

I have observed after pandemic, there are open access journals. So, editors suggest to submit in the open access journals. As a result, we are facing this issue. It can be one of the reason. Solution to this problem from my point of view:

1) Target IEEE Journals (there are fare chances of acceptance here)

2) Focus on experimental research work

3) Focus on patents based on original research work

The number of participants and their demographics could be a factor. Race and differences in cardiometabolic issues might be influencing the differences miRNA expression. Try look at the DEGs associated with the miRNAs that didn't match up, this will give you more insight into what's happening. It could be technical differences like choice of housekeeping genes, normalization process.

Scopus is the largest database of citations and abstracts of peer-reviewed research literature in the world, and therefore being a reviewer of Scopus magazine gives you academic standing in addition to serving you in the annual evaluation if you work in the academic field.

NAAS-RATED JOURNALS COME UNDER UGC APPROVED OR NOT.

Analytica Chimica Acta 6.2 Impact Factor

The template is only in word format. you can find it here

Dear Bahi Selma,

the journal and the editors are 100% fair. My manuscript had to be submitted twice. In the first round, it was rejected based on professional reviews. I improved and revised the paper, and submitted it once again. Please consider that the whole process can be relatively long. I waited 16 months since the first submission for the acceptance. Do not hesitate to submit in GEGE (Geotextiles and Geomembranes).

Regards,

Szabolcs Fischer

Dear Ilse Fouche ,

You question the legitimacy of the journal “Discovery Education” (https://link.springer.com/journal/44217 ). I have a number of papers published by Springer and the lay-out changed over the last couple of weeks/months (?), see for example:

If I recall correctly then this lay-out was first used for exclusively open access journal titles published by Springer but it is now for all their titles.

So, SpringerLink is definitely a Springer product and no sign of being predatory.

As you can see at https://link.springer.com/journal/44217 they don’t promise a 7 days turn-over time but an average “First decision” time of 7 days, meaning that the editor will decide to hand-over your manuscript for peer review or decide for desk rejection. I am pretty sure that this journal will get their indexing (Scopus, Clarivate’s ESCI etc.) pretty soon, for now one can benefit of a little launching discount https://link.springer.com/journal/44217/updates/19784724

Best regards.

PS. Their peer review time looks more than reasonable, see for example: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s44217-023-00063-w#article-info Received 01 April 2023, Accepted 08 October 2023 and Published 18 October 2023

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s44217-023-00065-8#article-info Received 22 May 2023, Accepted 11 October 2023 Published 16 October 2023

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s44217-023-00050-1#article-info Received 05 June 2023, 17 August 2023, Published 04 September 2023

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s44217-023-00044-z#article-info Received 01 March 2023, Accepted 02 August 2023, Published 15 August 2023

Etc. Etc.

Well, when I click on their homepage, I get a security alert that their website uses unsafe certificates thus banning me from accessing it from my work computer. So, even if it's not predatory, your chances of not getting read when you publish there are quite high.