The A&A Experience With Impact Factors
Astrophysics
2019-03-13 v1
Abstract
There is a widespread impression that the scientific journal "Astronomy & Astrophysics" (A&A) has a smaller impact, as measured by citations to articles, than some of the other major astronomy journals. This impression was apparently supported - and probably created - by the Journal Citation Report (JCR), which is prepared annually by the Institute of Scientific Information (ISI) Web of Knowledge. The published poor impact factor of A&A was in fact wrong and was due to a serious flaw in the method used by ISI Web of Knowledge to determine it. The resulting damage inflicted upon A&A by the JCR is incalculable.
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Cite
@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0403184,
title = {The A&A Experience With Impact Factors},
author = {Aa. Sandqvist},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0403184},
year = {2019}
}
Comments
4 pages, to be published in A. Heck (ed.) "Organizations and Strategies in Astronomy, Vol. 5" (Kluwer, 2004)