It's flame bait alright and I'm swallowing it hook, line and sinker, just as last time These guys over there just always manage to press all my buttons
So what's going on? The blog of the Association for Scholarly Publishing seems to be in PLoS One bashing mode these days. This time with a post about the new Impact Factor (IF) for PLoS One. There has already been quite some discussion going on away from the original post (as nobody with scientific credentials seems to be inclined to post comments there anymore). The two people reading my blog (hi Mom! ) know my position on IFs. Those who don't can read here or here. The central sentence of the piece over at the Scholarly Kitchen is actually a question:
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So what's going on? The blog of the Association for Scholarly Publishing seems to be in PLoS One bashing mode these days. This time with a post about the new Impact Factor (IF) for PLoS One. There has already been quite some discussion going on away from the original post (as nobody with scientific credentials seems to be inclined to post comments there anymore). The two people reading my blog (hi Mom! ) know my position on IFs. Those who don't can read here or here. The central sentence of the piece over at the Scholarly Kitchen is actually a question:
So how can a journal that allows 7 out of 10 manuscripts through their gate achieve such a stellar rating?
Asking this question can entail a few things:- The author doesn't know how left-skewed data affect the arithmetic mean (see any statistics textbook).
- The author doesn't know how the IF is 'calculated' (see links above).
- The author doesn't know that there is little/no correlation between pre-publication selection and IF (BMJ 1997).
- The author does know all this, but thinks his readers don't know any of the above.
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Posted on Tuesday 22 June 2010 - 14:50:22 comment: 0
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