Parallel Worlds of Citable Documents and Others: Inflated Commissioned Opinion Articles Enhance Scientometric Indicators
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Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216208%3A11120%2F14%3A43908084" target="_blank" >RIV/00216208:11120/14:43908084 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/asi.22997" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/asi.22997</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/asi.22997" target="_blank" >10.1002/asi.22997</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Parallel Worlds of Citable Documents and Others: Inflated Commissioned Opinion Articles Enhance Scientometric Indicators
Original language description
Scientometric indicators influence the standing of journals among peers, thus affecting decisions regarding manuscript submissions, scholars? careers, and funding. Here we hypothesize that impact-factor boosting (unethical behavior documented previouslyin several underperforming journals) should not be considered as exceptional, but that it affects even the top-tier journals. We performed a citation analysis of documents recently published in 11 prominent general science and biomedical journals. In these journals, only 12 to 79% of what they publish was considered original research, whereas editorial materials alone constituted 11 to 44% of the total document types published. Citations to commissioned opinion articles comprised 3 to 15% of the total citations to the journals within 3 postpublication years, with even a higher share occurring during the first postpublication year. An additional 4 to 15% of the citations were received by the journals from commissioned opinion articles pu
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>x</sub> - Unclassified - Peer-reviewed scientific article (Jimp, Jsc and Jost)
CEP classification
AF - Documentation, librarianship, work with information
OECD FORD branch
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Result continuities
Project
Result was created during the realization of more than one project. More information in the Projects tab.
Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2014
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology
ISSN
2330-1635
e-ISSN
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Volume of the periodical
65
Issue of the periodical within the volume
3
Country of publishing house
US - UNITED STATES
Number of pages
9
Pages from-to
635-643
UT code for WoS article
000335582300015
EID of the result in the Scopus database
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