Publishing and Impact Factor

Author recognition, impact factor, relevance, and the meaning of publishing.

Address to: Prof. Manoel Otávio da Costa Rocha. Centro de Pós-Graduação/ FM/UFMG. Av. Prof. Alfredo Balena 190, Santa Efigênia, 30130-150 Belo Horizonte, MG, Brasil. Phone: 55 31 3409-9641 e-mail: [email protected]; [email protected] Received 01 April 2013 Accepted 10 April 2013 Editorial Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical 46(2):125-127, Mar-Apr, 2013 http://dx.doi...

Emerging concepts in high-impact publishing: insights from the First Brazilian Colloquium on High Impact Research and Publishing.

Reports of scientific research are published by selective journals only when they meet stringent criteria, first and foremost of which are the quality and importance of the research. Even when the research is excellent, other elements come into play to determine if the manuscript will be accepted for publication. Many of these factors are under direct control of the researcher-author, but not a...

Measuring publication impact, and publishing and funding models

Open Access Publishing and Citation Impact - An International Study

This paper describes the analysis of open access (OA) publishing in the Netherlands in an international comparison. As OA publishing is now actively stimulated by Dutch science policy, similar to the UK, a bibliometric baseline measurement is conducted to assess the current situation, to be able to measure developments over time. For the study we collected data from various sources, and for thr...

Selected papers from the international conference Academic Publishing in Europe: The Impact of Publishing

The fourth APE – Academic Publishing in Europe – Conference in the Berlin Brandenburg Academy of Sciences, was about ‘the impact of publishing’. The APE 2009 spectrum varied from usage and users, peer reviewing and quality assurance, branding, funding and investing, business models, new types of information, enabling technologies, search engines, to research excellence, dissemination, access an...