---------- Forwarded Message ---------- Subject: Follow-up: Online journals Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2001 11:26:00 -0500 From: Chitu Okoli chitu@OKOLI.ORG To: ISWORLD@LISTSERV.HEANET.IE
Hi y'all,
Following my recent posting about responses to the question, "What is a peer-reviewed journal?", I received the attached message below from Lee Giles. He referred me to an empirical study in Nature magazine that argues that articles available online are cited more frequently.
This is rather fascinating, especially in light of Jeimy Cano's recent posting (August 31) introducing us to the Public Library of Science (http://www.publiclibraryofscience.org). His posting can be referenced in the ISWorld List archives at http://listserv.heanet.ie/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0108&L=isworld&F= &S=&P=20222.
Chitu Okoli Doctoral Student in Information Systems Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge
What good is it if you win the whole world, but you lose your soul, your true self? Or what are you selling your soul for? -- Jesus (Matthew 16:26)
-----Original Message----- From: Lee Giles [mailto:giles@ist.psu.edu] Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2001 8:23 PM To: chitu@OKOLI.ORG Subject: RE:... What is a peer-reviewed journal
Hi:
My colleague Steve Sawyer forwarded me some of your comments.
One issue that you might want to consider is how peer-reviewed journals are rated and/or compared. A debated useful measure is impact factor. There are many ways of doing this - number of citations (NC) to the journal for a period of time, say a year; NC/(number of articles published), etc. The second measure attempts to normalize ratings over all journals. A journal with few cites is for a select and focused community. A journal with many is for a large and diverse community. Authors usually want to publish in high impact journals. How does a journal have a greater impact?
A colleague of mine showed that online papers are cited more than those not online. Would the same be true of a journal? I would expect so. See: http://www.neci.nec.com/~lawrence/papers/online-nature01/ for more details
You might want to look at one of our citation projects: http://www.researchindex.org.
Best regards,
Lee Giles
-- Dr. C. Lee Giles, David Reese Professor School of Information Sciences and Technology and Computer Science and Engineering The Pennsylvania State University University Park, PA, 16801, USA giles@ist.psu.edu - 814 865 4461 http://ist.psu.edu/giles
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