jonny, 3 months ago (edited 3 months ago) to random

Apparently #Clarivate's Web of Science, one of the major proprietary indexes that employers use to determine whether papers in a journal can be considered in tenure & promotion decisions, denied @joss 's request to be indexed without even telling us. This is not the first time JOSS has been rejected

I checked their "objective review criteria" and JOSS easily passes all the qualifications.

Speaking strictly as my own opinion, not in my role as a JOSS editor or reviewer, but as a matter of fact these indexers are a fucking racket.

https://github.com/openjournals/joss/issues/1283

Edit: here's the cause of rejection -

We received a desk rejection (based on an initial check) as we don't have :

Editor titles and affiliations listed.
A postal address for the publisher.

https://github.com/openjournals/joss/issues/1283#issuecomment-1971277233

But they are listed: https://joss.theoj.org/about

And the submission was in last may and we just got the response.

petersuber, 3 months ago (edited 3 months ago) to academia

#Clarivate (the company behind Web of Science, journal impact factors, and ProQuest) just launched a new #IntellectualProperty center.
https://clarivate.com/news/clarivate-launches-new-center-for-intellectual-property-and-innovation-research/

It's for "corporations and research organizations". Does that include #universities? Not clear. The focus is not on sharing research to make it more useful, but on creating "brand IP assets".

#Academia #Copyright
@academicchatter

petersuber, 3 months ago (edited 3 months ago) to random

#Clarivate has modified journal impact factors (#JIFs) in response to an "increase in both the quantity & sophistication of fraudulent behaviors."
https://clarivate.com/blog/2024-journal-citation-reports-changes-in-journal-impact-factor-category-rankings-to-enhance-transparency-and-inclusivity

It's now cultivating the false & invidious impression that journals w/o JIFs are somehow untrustworthy or fraudulent.

"We have evolved the JIF from an indicator of scholarly impact (the numerical value of the JIF)…to an indicator of both…impact & trustworthiness (having a JIF – regardless of the number)."

#Metrics #ScholComm

petrnuska, 5 months ago to random

This!👇

https://www.sorbonne-universite.fr/en/news/sorbonne-university-unsubscribes-web-science

#OpenScience #OpenAccess #WebOfScience #Wos #Clarivate #ClarivateAnalytics

rmounce, 5 months ago to random

The thing that really pisses me off about university-wide EndNote licensing?

It's not even the best proprietary solution out there, even if the university was hellbent on only supporting proprietary tools.

Paperpile is way way better than EndNote. Even though I really really dislike it, I wonder if Mendeley isn't a better option than EndNote too?

In summary, there's a whole set of open and proprietary products that IMHO are better than EndNote and yet... unis still love paying for EndNote?

LudoWaltman, 6 months ago to random

Important news:

#SorbonneUniversity will "discontinue its subscription to #WebOfScience publication database and #Clarivate bibliometric tools ... opening the way for open, free and participative tools." https://www.sorbonne-universite.fr/en/news/sorbonne-university-unsubscribes-web-science

Sorbonne's "choices are in line with those of @cwts, which has announced it is making openness of research information a priority, and is currently working on fully transparent and reproducible version of its rankings, based on open data from @crossref and @OpenAlex."

thejapantimes, 8 months ago to Japan

Japanese researchers Masashi Yanagisawa and Kazunori Kataoka are in the list of 23 world-class researchers named by Clarivate as Citation Laureates for 2023. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/09/20/japan/science-health/researchers-citation-laureates/?utm_content=buffercd170&utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=bffmstdn #japan #sciencehealth #masashiyanagisawa #kazunorikataoka #clarivate #medicine

thejapantimes, 8 months ago to Japan

Japanese researchers Masashi Yanagisawa and Kazunori Kataoka are in the list of 23 world-class researchers named by Clarivate as Citation Laureates for 2023. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/09/20/japan/researchers-citation-laureates/?utm_content=bufferc775f&utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=bffmstdn #japan #masashiyanagisawa #kazunorikataoka #clarivate #medicine

LudoWaltman, 9 months ago to random

Yesterday I had the pleasure of speaking at French Ranking Day organized by #Clarivate and Université PSL.

I spoke about growing global dissatisfaction with major university rankings, including commitment made recently by the Dutch universities to work on culture change in use of rankings https://www.universiteitenvannederland.nl/en_GB/nieuws-detail/nieuwsbericht/915-p-dutch-universities-to-take-different-approach-to-rankings-p.html. #UNL

I also presented ongoing work to create fully open edition of @cwts #LeidenRanking https://www.leidenmadtrics.nl/articles/the-cwts-leiden-ranking-2023. @neesjanvaneck @OpenAlex #COKI

Slides: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8325430.

petersuber, 11 months ago (edited 11 months ago) to ai

#Clarivate will support conversational #AI in its tools and allow an AI company to train on its #paywalled #data.
https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/clarivate-announces-partnership-with-ai21-labs-as-part-of-its-generative-ai-strategy-to-drive-growth-301857301.html

Or at least that's my plain-language summary of a pretty opaque press release.

Note that Clarivate owns or controls the #WebOfScience, #JournalImpactFactor (#JIF) data, #Publons, #EndNote, #ScholarOne, and #ProQuest.