Re: Elsevier quality control... (fwd)

Re: Elsevier quality control... (fwd)

[PETER EASTHOPE]

Michael Fourman wrote,
mf> ... Research Evaluation in the UK is
moving from peer review to citation-based metrics.

More automation, more technological complexity,
more resources consumed. Less substance.
Ie. decreasing efficiency in human endeavour.

A trend throughout the industrialized world
since about 1950 and so sign of the trend changing.

Regards,     ... Peter E.

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Elsevier quality control... (fwd)

[Michael Fourman]

Hi Mike!

This is scary, particularly since our Research Evaluation in the UK is  
moving from peer review to citation-based metrics.

Maybe this will prove useful fodder for our arguments against reliance  
on Thomson ...

CHAOS SOLITONS & FRACTALS
  is indeed covered :

http://scientific.thomsonreuters.com/cgi-bin/jrnlst/jlresults.cgi?PC=MASTER&Word=chaos

CHAOS SOLITONS & FRACTALSSemimonthlyISSN: 0960-0779PERGAMON-ELSEVIER  
SCIENCE LTD, THE BOULEVARD, LANGFORD LANE, KIDLINGTON, OXFORD,  
ENGLAND, OX5 1GB
	• Coverage
			• Science Citation Index
			• Science Citation Index Expanded
			• Current Contents - Physical, Chemical & Earth Sciences

Best wishes for the new year,

Michael Fourman

On 31 Dec 2008, at 01:04, Michael Barr wrote:

> My daughter (who works for the Nature Publishing Group) sent me the
> following, which is worth reading for knowing the kind of journals
> Elsevier publishes.  Follow the link to John Baez' blog (from which  
> the
> comments are taken):
> http://golem.ph.utexas.edu/category/2008/11/the_case_of_m_s_el_naschie.html
> or just go directly there and save the middle man.
>
> I assume that this journal is indexed by ISI.  Good grief, imagine  
> that
> granting agencies are taking that crock of dung seriously.
>
> Michael
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2008 16:34:16 -0500 (EST)
> From: Rebecca Barr <rmbarr@pipeline.com>
> To: Michael Barr <barr@math.mcgill.ca>
> Subject: Elsevier quality control...
>
> http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2008/12/22/publish_your_work_the_easy_way.php
>
>
>
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Elsevier quality control... (fwd)

[Michael Barr]

My daughter (who works for the Nature Publishing Group) sent me the
following, which is worth reading for knowing the kind of journals
Elsevier publishes.  Follow the link to John Baez' blog (from which the
comments are taken):
http://golem.ph.utexas.edu/category/2008/11/the_case_of_m_s_el_naschie.html
or just go directly there and save the middle man.

I assume that this journal is indexed by ISI.  Good grief, imagine that
granting agencies are taking that crock of dung seriously.

Michael

---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2008 16:34:16 -0500 (EST)
From: Rebecca Barr <rmbarr@pipeline.com>
To: Michael Barr <barr@math.mcgill.ca>
Subject: Elsevier quality control...

http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2008/12/22/publish_your_work_the_easy_way.php