hilit et al.,
some journal's choose not to be ISI-listed (e.g., PLoS ONE) for
various reasons. i, and others, have shown limitations with journal
impact factors (see partial list of recent papers below). although
no one metric works for all situations (e.g., how do we evaluate
applied journals where results from their papers are used by natural
resource managers but not cited in the peer-reviewed literature?), i
am a fan of www.Eigenfactor.org (no info about Urban Ecosystems is
available). this site provides metrics for journal quality and value
(these data are now available as part of ISI's journal citation
reports). the algorithms function similar to how Google ranks
websites and include variation in citation rates across disciplines.
i think that scientists, administrators, tenure and promotion
committees, students, editors, journals, etc. should focus less on
journal impact factors and more on the production of quality,
interesting, and useful science.
alan
SOME RECENT PAPERS ABOUT JOURNAL IMPACT FACTORS
Agrawal, A. A. 2005. Corruption of journal Impact Factors. Trends in
Ecology & Evolution 20:157-157.
Althouse, B. M., J. D. West, C. T. Bergstrom, and T. Bergstrom. 2009.
Differences in Impact Factor Across Fields and Over Time. Journal of
the American Society for Information Science and Technology 60:27-34.
Brumback, R. A. 2008. Worshiping false idols: The impact factor
dilemma. Journal of Child Neurology 23:365-367.
Campanario, J. M. and L. Gonzalez. 2006. Journal self-citations that
contribute to the impact factor: Documents labeled "editorial
material" in journals covered by the Science Citation Index.
Scientometrics 69:365-386.
Colquhoun, D. 2003. Challenging the tyranny of impact factors. Nature
423:479-479.
Golubic, R., M. Rudes, N. Kovacic, M. Marusic, and A. Marusic. 2008.
Calculating impact factor: How bibliographical classification of
journal items affects the impact factor of large and small journals.
Science and Engineering Ethics 14:41-49.
Greenwood, D. C. 2007. Reliability of journal impact factor rankings.
Bmc Medical Research Methodology 7.
Hecht, F., B. K. Hecht, and A. A. Sandberg. 1998. The journal "impact
factor": A misnamed, misleading, misused measure. Cancer Genetics and
Cytogenetics 104:77-81.
Lawrence, P. A. 2007. The mismeasurement of science. Current Biology
17:R583-R585.
Moed, H. F. and T. N. vanLeeuwen. 1996. Impact factors can mislead.
Nature 381:186-186.
Seglen, P. O. 1997. Why the impact factor of journals should not be
used for evaluating research. British Medical Journal 314:498-502.
Wilcox, A. J. 2008. Rise and fall of the Thomson impact factor.
Epidemiology 19:373-374.
Wilson, A. E. 2007. Journal impact factors are inflated. Bioscience
57:550-551. link: http://wilsonlab.com/publications/2007_BioScience_Wilson.pdf
At 07:27 AM 10/28/2009, you wrote:
Hello dear list users,
Does anyone know the journal Urban ecosystems?
It still doesn't have an impact factor and i wanted to know if any of you
knows why.
Thanks,
--
Hilit Finkler
PhD student
Zoology department
The George S. Wise Life sciences faculty
Tel Aviv University
Israel
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Alan Wilson - Assistant Professor
Auburn University - Fisheries and Allied Aquacultures
www.wilsonlab.com - [email protected]
