From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.science.mathematics.categories/4726 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Andrej Bauer" Newsgroups: gmane.science.mathematics.categories Subject: Re: Science Citation Index Date: Fri, 5 Dec 2008 08:07:44 +0100 Message-ID: Reply-To: "Andrej Bauer" NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1241020133 14567 80.91.229.2 (29 Apr 2009 15:48:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2009 15:48:53 +0000 (UTC) To: categories@mta.ca Original-X-From: rrosebru@mta.ca Fri Dec 5 09:45:56 2008 -0400 Return-path: Envelope-to: categories-list@mta.ca Delivery-date: Fri, 05 Dec 2008 09:45:56 -0400 Original-Received: from Majordom by mailserv.mta.ca with local (Exim 4.61) (envelope-from ) id 1L8avz-0004Qh-QK for categories-list@mta.ca; Fri, 05 Dec 2008 09:41:31 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline Original-Sender: categories@mta.ca Precedence: bulk X-Keywords: X-UID: 30 Original-Lines: 21 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.science.mathematics.categories:4726 Archived-At: In many countries, Slovenia included, the SCI is used in a formal way in government funding decisions, as well as in decisions about promotions at our university. My colleagues and I in Ljubljana simply must publish in journals that are on the SCI index, otherwise the publication is hardly recognized at all ('8 points' for top half of SCI versus '2 points' for being in Math Reviews). To add insult to injury practically all journals on SCI are of the kind that steals our work, funded by public money, and resells it back to the public. Nobody is even attempting to explain to the government what the problem is. If anyone has a plan on how to break the grip, I would like to hear it. So even if I wrote papers in category theory, I would/could not publish them in TAC because it is not in SCI. Best regards, Andrej