Thanks Raymond!
Cheers,
Tony Lee
Raymond Arritt wrote:
> Tony Lee wrote:
>
> > Now IANACS, but I have a question: I often read on sites like
> > RealClimate etc, that this or that sceptics' study was published in an
> > "obscure" journal. How do you know which journals are better rated?
> >
> > I'm asking because I'm studying (from a social science point of view)
> > the way people talk about climate change in media and on blogs, and am
> > thinking this would be a useful metric for my analysis.
>
> Good question. There's no definitive answer but there are some useful
> indicators.
>
> First, check if the journal is indexed in the ISI Web of Science. This
> will weed out the really obscure ones.
>
> See how many libraries carry the journal. There's a way to check this
> but I've forgotten how. (Anyone?)
>
> Also look at whether the nature of the journal fits with the subject
> matter. Ask yourself questions like, why is this paper on climate
> modeling published in a journal that mostly deals with oil exploration?
> Sometimes there's a good reason -- e.g., there are arguments that
> modeling of paleoclimate could be useful for oil exploration because
> fossil fuels are made of old living matter. But in general, if a paper
> that claims to be relevant to climate is published in a journal that
> hardly ever publishes papers on climate that should raise a flag (a good
> recent example is the infamous "global temperature" article published in
> the Journal of Non-Equilibrium Thermodynamics).
>
> Finally, look at the curriculum vitae of some climate scientists. Many
> have their CVs posted on the web. The field is rather small, and you'll
> notice that the same journals appear over and over again.
>
> Others can chime in with their suggestions.
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