From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.science.mathematics.categories/4731 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: jim stasheff Newsgroups: gmane.science.mathematics.categories Subject: Re: Science Citation Index Date: Fri, 05 Dec 2008 09:58:10 -0500 Message-ID: Reply-To: jim stasheff NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1241020135 14586 80.91.229.2 (29 Apr 2009 15:48:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2009 15:48:55 +0000 (UTC) To: categories@mta.ca Original-X-From: rrosebru@mta.ca Fri Dec 5 20:17:53 2008 -0400 Return-path: Envelope-to: categories-list@mta.ca Delivery-date: Fri, 05 Dec 2008 20:17:53 -0400 Original-Received: from Majordom by mailserv.mta.ca with local (Exim 4.61) (envelope-from ) id 1L8klx-0002gW-B9 for categories-list@mta.ca; Fri, 05 Dec 2008 20:11:49 -0400 Original-Sender: categories@mta.ca Precedence: bulk X-Keywords: X-UID: 36 Original-Lines: 32 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.science.mathematics.categories:4731 Archived-At: Andrej Bauer wrote: > 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. > The AMS should be taking up this cause. Has anyone tried to interest them? jim > 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 > > >