This shows how rotten the impact factor business is. Thanks Mukul Goyal
----- Original Message ----- From: "James P.G. Sterbenz" <[email protected]> To: "TCCC" <[email protected]> Cc: "James P.G. Sterbenz" <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, May 11, 2012 8:31:42 AM Subject: Re: [Tccc] New citation guidelines imposed by Telecommunication Systems Journal On 11 May 2012, at 08:25, Olivier Bonaventure wrote: > Dear colleagues, > > > I recently decided to submit to the Telecommunication Systems Journal a > paper that we considered in scope for the journal. Shortly after our > submission, we received the following email : [snip] > Please make sure that your modified paper meets this new policy. When > you send your modified paper, please list the new references in your > e-mail listing their reference numbers in the modified paper and make a > statement in the e-mail stating that the paper is in compliance with the > new policy. Please include all files for the paper in the e-mail with > the modified paper. No further action will be taken with this submission > until the modified paper is received." > > I've never seen such a requirement and have immediately withdrawn our > paper. You might consider this new requirement if you plan to submit to > this journal... I had a similar requirement imposed on me for a paper in IEEE Transactions on Aerospace Systems and Electronics. I was pretty surprised at that. One wonders if this isn't journals deciding that this is a way to raise their citation indices... Cheers, James --------------------------------------------------------------------- James P.G. Sterbenz jpgs@{ittc|eecs}.ku.edu [email protected] www.ittc.ku.edu/~jpgs 154 Nichols ITTC|EECS InfoLab21 Lancaster U +1 508 944 3067 The University of Kansas [email protected] jpgs@{acm|ieee|comsoc|computer|m.ieice}.org [email protected] gplus.to/jpgs www.facebook.com/jpgsterbenz google|skype:jpgsterbenz _______________________________________________ IEEE Communications Society Tech. Committee on Computer Communications (TCCC) - for discussions on computer networking and communication. [email protected] https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc _______________________________________________ IEEE Communications Society Tech. Committee on Computer Communications (TCCC) - for discussions on computer networking and communication. [email protected] https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc
