Olivier Bonaventure: >> 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.
I think I would find this unacceptable. James P.G. Sterbenz: >I had a similar requirement imposed on me for a paper in IEEE >Transactions on Aerospace Systems and Electronics. That is a surprise to me. I would never expect such a requirement from IEEE journals. >One wonders if this isn't journals deciding that >this is a way to raise their citation indices... Well, soliciting citations to the same journal is a well-known technique for raising the citation index. I find it unpleasant, but authors can ignore it. But *requiring* it is a different thing... -- Francesco Potortì (ricercatore) Voice: +39.050.315.3058 (op.2111) ISTI - Area della ricerca CNR Mobile: +39.348.8283.107 via G. Moruzzi 1, I-56124 Pisa Fax: +39.050.315.2040 (entrance 20, 1st floor, room C71) Web: http://fly.isti.cnr.it _______________________________________________ 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
