Dear Tassos, thanks for alerting us to this unexpected but welcome fact! I would like to take the opportunity to
a) congratulate George Sheldrick! b) point out to the CCP4 community that we decide ourselves about the impact factors of journals that are important for our work: specifically, if we would cite Acta Cryst (and JAC) papers in our own articles, then this is what will raise (or rather, keep up) the impact factor of Acta Cryst in the next years. In other words, please _do_ cite the individual programs (separately!) that you use to solve and refine your structure, as suggested under "Referencing CCP4 etc" at http://www.ccp4.ac.uk/about.php . And cite these papers in the main article, not only in the "supporting material" (I surely will need to revise my own citing behaviour). Ultimately, those of us publishing in Acta Cryst and related journals will benefit from this, too. (whether it will suffice for tenure for methods-related work is still an open question) c) point out that it is of little use to researchers if a review is cited instead of their original work. thanks, Kay Anastassis Perrakis schrieb: > Dear all, > > We are all used to the tyranny of impact factors: high impact > publication in "well esteemed" journals, as dictated by the Supreme > Authority - excuse me, I meant Thomson Reuters - often substitutes the > judgement of interview panels, grant review panels and sometimes is a > decision-maker for lazy referees. A 'high impact' publication in your CV > often counts as much as consistent work done for years and is considered > the gateway for good jobs and careers. And, alas, your Acta Cryst > papers, would not count ... > > Since yesterday though, a single person, no other than the ccp4bb > bulletin board subscriber and contributor, and an emblematic figure of > our community, George Sheldrick, has managed with one action to showcase > the flaws of this system. Since yesterday, officially, the top ranking > journal according to the official Thomson Reuters Impact factor is: Acta > Crystallographica Part A. How was that made possible? Simply by > publishing a 'short history about SHELX' and requesting users to cite > it. It took two years, but now Acta A has displaced Cell, Nature, > Science and even New England Journal of Medicine from the top ranks. > > Well, good luck to all the methods-folk who are up for tenure, here is > your chance guys and girls ... it will not last long!!! > > Best regards, > > Tassos > > Specifically, the publication with second highest impact factor in the > "science" category is/Acta Crystallographica - Section A/, knocking none > other than the/New England Journal of Medicine/from the runner's up > position. This title's impact factor rocketed up to 49.926 this year, > more than 20-fold higher than last year. A single article published in a > 2008 issue of the journal seems to be responsible for the meteoric rise > in the/Acta Crystallographica - Section A/'s impact factor."A short > history of SHELX," > <http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/119398457/abstract>by > University of Göttingen crystallographerGeorge Sheldrick, > <http://shelx.uni-ac.gwdg.de/%3Csub%3Egsheldr/>which reviewed the > development of the computer system SHELX, has been cited more than 6,600 > times, according to ISI. This paper includes a sentence that essentially > instructs readers to cite the paper they're reading -- "This paper could > serve as a general literature citation when one or more of the > open-source SHELX programs (and the Bruker AXS version SHELXTL) are > employed in the course of a crystal-structure determination." (Note: > This may be a good way to boost your citations.) -- Kay Diederichs http://strucbio.biologie.uni-konstanz.de email: [email protected] Tel +49 7531 88 4049 Fax 3183 Fachbereich Biologie, Universität Konstanz, Box M647, D-78457 Konstanz This e-mail is digitally signed. If your e-mail client does not have the necessary capabilities, just ignore the attached signature "smime.p7s".
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