Dear Victor, I strongly support the stance that is in the Acta D Editorial. Manfred Weiss worked very hard assembling those details and over quite some time; he deserves our thanks. Greetings, John
On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 4:06 PM, Victor Lamzin <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear All, > > I would like to bring to your attention the recent Editorial in Acta Cryst D > (http://journals.iucr.org/d/issues/2010/12/00/issconts.html), which > highlights the long-standing issue of under-citation of papers published in > the IUCr journals. The Editorial, having looked at the papers published in > 2009 in Nature, Science, Cell and PNAS, concluded: > > 'almost half of all references to publications in IUCr journals end up being > published in the supplementary material only... Not only does this mean that > the impact factor of IUCr journals should be higher, but also that the real > overall numbers of citations of methods papers are much higher than what is > reported, for instance, by the Web of Science' > > Although this topic may seem to concern mostly methods developers, I think > the whole research community will only benefit from more fair credit that we > all give to our colleagues via referencing their publications. What do you > think? > > Victor > -- Professor John R Helliwell DSc
