Wow, thanks for this, Paul. It's great to see others coming out so strongly against the publishing mafia.
So what can we do about it? Send our articles to Hakan Gur's Journal of Sports Science and Medicine http://www.jssm.org/ or similar open-access journals? Hakan's page charges are very reasonable compared with other open-access journals. If we do that, we will also have to wrest control of our academic careers from the bean counters who insist on taking into account the impact factors of the journals. As we all know, what matters is not the impact of the journal but the impact of the article. Assessing the impact of an article is easy: it's the eventual maximum rate of its citation in other articles, although in our discipline you have to be careful to use Google Scholar and not PubMed or other databases slanted toward the traditional disciplines and journals with ISI impact factors. Will Will G Hopkins, PhD FACSM Contact info: http://sportsci.org/will Sportscience: http://sportsci.org Statistics: http://newstats.org Be creative: break rules. ------------------------------------ Post messages to sportscience@yahoogroups.com. To (un)subscribe, send any message to sportscience-(un)subscr...@yahoogroups.com. View all messages at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/sportscience/.Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/sportscience/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/sportscience/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: sportscience-dig...@yahoogroups.com sportscience-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: sportscience-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
