David Simpson wrote:
Christopher,
You changed the gender of Rauscher. Fran is not a 'he."
A thousand pardons. I saw only "F. H." My assumption of "he" was in
error and I will endeavor to fight this with more vigilance in future.
I
suggest that a careful reading of the data analysis of the "target"
article might be informative.
Indeed it might. One can only read so much, however. My main object was
not to critique the content of the article but, rather, assuming Ken
was right in his critique, find out who would have published an article
with so egregious a developmental error. If you have information that
undercuts the apparent error Ken identified, please share it with us.
Regards,
--
Christopher D. Green
Department of Psychology
York University
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
M3J 1P3
e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
phone: 416-736-5115 ext. 66164
fax: 416-736-5814
http://www.yorku.ca/christo/
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Kudos to the York University faculty for the thoughtful contributions
to this list.
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From: Christopher D. Green
Reply To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences
Sent: Monday, January 26, 2004 10:54 AM
To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences
Subject: Re: Do rats show a Mozart effect?
Ken Steele wrote:
Stephen Black wrote:
Ken Steele knows.
(Music Perception, 2003, vol. 21, 251--)
And you can find the answer in
http://www.acs.appstate.edu/dept/psych/Documents/Steele2003.pdf
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Gee! You'd think that journals named _Neurological Research_ (and their
reviewers) would know things like whether rats pups are deaf in utero
or not. :-)
It's published by an English company called W. S. Maney, which
describes itself as "one of the few remaining independent publishers of
quality." Hmm. The editor seems quite legit, however -- Manuel Dujovny,
Professor of Neurosurgery at Wayne State University who, he says on his
website, "has more tha[sic] 300 publications in peer reviewed journals,
and has received numerous national and international awards." It has a
big, impressive-looking editorial board, but no information about its
review process. Does anyone know anything about this journal and its
peer-review practices?
According to ISI Journal Citation Index, _Neurological Research_ has an
impact factor of .969 (meaning that, on average, the articles it
publishes receive just under one citation elsewhere in the literature
per year). By comparison, _Neuron_ has an impact factor of 13. 846. The
APA's _Neuropsychology_ has an impact factor of 2.324. So we seem to be
talking about a legitimate, but rather minor journal. (Then again,
_Music Perpcetion_ has an impact factor of only .707, but that is
rather understandable given its relatively narrow focus, relative to
_Neurological Research_.)
The Rauscher, Robinson, & Jens (1998) article that is Ken's target
has been cited nine other times in the literature, twice by Rauscher
himself, twce by Rauscher's sometime co-author, G.L. Shaw, twice by a
J.M. Perlman (among 176(!) references in one case, and among 188(!) in
the other), and three times by other individials. In other words, this
article has about *double* the citation rate of other articles
published in the same journal.
Always interesting (to me, anyway) to track these things down.
Best,
--
Christopher D. Green
Department of Psychology
York University
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
M3J 1P3
e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
phone: 416-736-5115 ext. 66164
fax: 416-736-5814
http://www.yorku.ca/christo/
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