Welcome to the first issue of Research Trends, a bi-monthly newsletter providing objective, up-to-the-minute insights into scientific trends based on bibliometric analysis.
The new SCImago Journal & Country Rank <http://www.scimagojr.com> system utilizes data from Elsevier's Scopus database to produce a variety of scholarly journal and country rankings. This portal makes rankings by subject areas (27) or subject categories (295) showing the visibility of journals and countries through scientific indicators like SJR, H-index, Total docs., Total refs., Total cites, Citable docs., Cites per docs., Self-citation, etc., since 1996 to 2006. You can select a threshold for this indicators. SJR is based in the “Page Rank” algorithm in order to weigh the citations by the journal cited.
These indicators have been calculated on March 2007 and will be updated periodically. For this reason some of the figures showed in the SJR portal and Scopus® may be not match.
The Help page provides detailed information about the free service.
“SCImago journal & Country rank: un nuevo portal, dos nuevos rankings” has been published in the journal "El Profesional de la Información", (vol.16, n. 6, 2007) available in open access at <http://elprofesionaldelainformacion.metapress.com>
For any suggest or comment, please contact with us: scimago@ugr.es
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Giant science publisher Elsevier announced this week that it is developing what it calls The Article of the Future, a new method of leveraging the web's multi-media capabilities for presenting academic articles online.
Cell Press and Elsevier have launched a project called Article of the Future that is an ongoing collaboration with the scientific community to redefine how the scientific article is presented online. The project's goal is to take full advantage of online capabilities, allowing readers individualized entry points and routes through the content, while using the latest advances in visualization techniques.
Wissenschaftsverlage schröpfen nicht nur die Forschung. Sie betrügen auch die Öffentlichkeit, die sich keinen freien Zugang zu den überteuerten Publikationen leisten kann.
Der Library Loon hat es eine Kriegserklärung an die Open-Access-Bewegung genannt, wir befinden uns demnach im Krieg um die Zukunft der wissenschaftlichen Kommunikation. Die Rede ist vom Research Works Act, einem Mitte Dezember im US-Repräsentantenhaus eingebrachten Gesetzesentwurf, auf den im deutschsprachigen Web bisher nur auf Archivalia aufmerksam gemacht wurde.
Researchers taking a stand against Elsevier. Academics have protested against Elsevier's business practices for years with little effect. The key to all these issues is the right of authors to achieve easily-accessible distribution of their work. If you would like to declare publicly that you will not support any Elsevier journal unless they radically change how they operate, then you can do so by filling in your details in the box below.
Forscher laufen Sturm gegen Elsevier, einen der größten Wissenschaftsverlage der Welt. Es geht um Wucher, geistige Ausbeutung, Betrug. Und um die Zukunft des Publizierens
Die freie Veröffentlichung wissenschaftlicher Ergebnisse im Internet könnte drastisch eingeschränkt werden. Ein Gesetzentwurf dazu liegt dem US-Repräsentantenhaus vor.
SOMETIMES it takes but a single pebble to start an avalanche. On January 21st Timothy Gowers, a mathematician at Cambridge University, wrote a blog post outlining the reasons for his longstanding boycott of research journals published by Elsevier. This firm, which is based in the Netherlands, owns more than 2,000 journals, including such top-ranking titles as Cell and the Lancet. However Dr Gowers, who won the Fields medal, mathematics’s equivalent of a Nobel prize, in 1998, is not happy with it, and he hoped his post might embolden others to do something similar.
Occupy Publishers: Tausende Forscher revoltieren gerade gegen die Preispolitik des Verlagshauses Elsevier, eines Giganten auf dem Markt für wissenschaftliche Zeitschriften.
Der Fakultätsrat der nicht als arm geltenden Elite-Universität warnt in einem Brandbrief, dass sich die Hochschulbibliothek den Bezug wissenschaftlicher Zeitschriften großer Fachverlage nicht mehr leisten könne.
"Man darf den Einfluss von bestimmten Unternehmen der Unterhaltungsindustrie nicht unterschätzen, und man muss außerdem wissen, dass es damals innerhalb der Gema "mafiöse" Strukturen gab, die die Gema noch bis heute beherrschen."
Ein Mannheimer Professor galt als der aufstrebende Stern seines Fachs - bis in vielen seiner publizierten Arbeiten statistische Fehler gefunden wurden. Doch statt den Sachverhalt schleunigst aufzuklären, zeichnen sich die betroffenen Universitäten und Fachzeitschriften durch zögerliches und intransparentes Handeln aus.
Schon seit 2012 weiss man, dass von Elsevier, Springer und Thieme Klage gegen den Dokumentlieferdienst der ETH-Bibliothek eingereicht wurde. Wie es aber weiterging war weitgehend unklar, insbesondere da die ETH-Bibliothek es tunlichst vermeidet, den Konflikt an die grosse Glocke zu hängen. Am 7. April 2014 fand am Handelsgericht des Kanton Zürich die Gerichtsverhandlung statt. Das…
Journal of Informetrics (JOI) publishes rigorous high-quality research on quantitative aspects of information science. The main focus of the journal...
It was a long and difficult road to get the major publishing houses to open up to open access, but in the end the Dutch universities got their much awaited ‘gold deal’ for open access. A recently…
Last week, the University of California terminated its license with Elsevier. Leakage has reduced the value of the big deal -- and publisher pricing power.
As a leader in the global movement toward open access to publicly funded research, the University of California is taking a firm stand by deciding not to renew its subscriptions with Elsevier. Despite months of contract negotiations, Elsevier was unwilling to meet UC’s key goal: securing universal open access to UC research while containing the rapidly escalating costs associated with for-profit journals.
The long read: It is an industry like no other, with profit margins to rival Google – and it was created by one of Britain’s most notorious tycoons: Robert Maxwell
For 17 months, the Bibsam Consortium did not have an agreement with the world’s largest scholarly publisher, Elsevier. There is now a summary of the consequences for the consortium, the concerned organizations and their researchers.
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