Publish or perish...

• Impact factors:
• Publish-or-Perish Postscripts (Author Impact Factor), Letters to the Editor of Physics Today, Mar 2005
  • Publish or Perish--An Ailing Enterprise?, Physics Today, Mar 2004.
• Not-so-deep impact: Research assessment rests too heavily on the inflated status of the impact factor, Nature 435, 1003-1004 (23 June 2005).
• The politics of publication, Nature 422, 259 - 261 (2003) (pdf)
• Challenging the tyranny of impact factors, Nature 423, 479 (2003) (pdf)
• Editors are meant to be judges, not postmen, Nature 423, 479 (2003) (pdf)
• Coping with peer rejection, Nature 425, 645 (2003) (pdf)
• Rejecting Nobel class articles and resisting Nobel class discoveries
• The system rewards a dishonest approach, Nature 423, 480 (2003) (pdf)
• Impact factors aren't top journals' sole attraction, Nature 423, 480 (2003) (pdf)
• Disruption to science in developing countries, Nature 423, 480 (2003) (pdf)
• Impact factors reward and promote excellence, Nature 424, 487 (31 July 2003)
• Impact factors: Use and abuse, M. Amin and M. Mabe, Elsevier Science, Perspective in Publishing, No.1, Oct 2000. Thu, 10 Feb 2005.
• The Journal Impact Factor of ISI, Current Contents, 20 Jun 1994.
• Do self-citations have an effect on the impact factor of journals?
• Citations:
• Paper trail reveals references go unread by citing authors, Nature 420, 594 (2002) (pdf)
• Copied citations give impact factors a boost, Nature 423, 373 (2003) (pdf)
• Hyperbole: Sell results, hide ignorance, use stock terms,...
• Opinion: Science or alchemy? Nature Reviews Genetics 2, 139-142 (2001) (pdf)
• Drowning in a Sea of Refereed Publications, by C. Reed, Chemical Engineering and News, Vol.79, No.5, pp.37-38, 2001.
• Crisis in Scholarly Publishing: A Stanford study (18 May 99)
• Eli Sternberg's Timoshenko medal speech, Florida, 1985.

How to avoid the reviewer's axe: one editor's view - Guest Editorial, Senturia, S.D. IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics and Frequency Control, Volume: 51 , Issue: 1 , Jan. 2004, Pages:127 - 130. Sun, 05 Dec 2004.

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