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14 lis 2024 · The journal eLife will no longer receive a journal impact factor, the much-debated metric that many scientists view as a badge of quality, the analytics firm Clarivate announced today. Clarivate, which operates the influential Web of Science database, said a review determined the journal’s novel publishing model adopted in January 2023—which includes public peer review but no final ...
2 dni temu · We have highlighted before that eLife has never supported the Impact Factor. A journal name or its Impact Factor says little about the quality of any individual research article. This is why we created the eLife Model to review, assess and directly engage with research without the need for proxies. Instead of indicating the quality of an ...
24 paź 2024 · Web of Science has paused indexing eLife Versions of Record in SCIE, the index that produces the Journal Impact Factor, due to eLife's public peer review and assessment model. eLife explains what this means for authors and its next steps to challenge the Impact Factor system.
25 paź 2024 · The independent, non-profit research journal eLife is to lose its Impact Factor, and its status on the Web of Science publication platform has been placed under review. The move follows policy changes brought in by the publication and the provider of the Web of Science metrics services.
eLife is a not-for-profit, peer-reviewed, open access, science publisher for the biomedical and life sciences. It has an impact factor of 6.4 (2023) and a controversial history of editorial changes and fee reductions.
14 lis 2024 · The Web of Science platform will continue to index some papers published by the independent, non-profit research journal eLife, after evaluating the journal’s updated approach to peer review. But eLife will lose its Impact Factor.
13 lis 2024 · Clarivate, the data company for scholarly publications, has decided to continue indexing some content from eLife in Web of Science, after reevaluating the open-access biology journal’s unusual practice of publishing articles without accepting or rejecting them. The journal will not receive an Impact Factor.
