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ISI report on the impact of OA journals
Thomson ISI has just released a report by James Testa and Marie E. McVeigh, The Impact of Open Access Journals.
Excerpts:
The report presents data by discipline and year. In some disciplines there are OA journals in the top rank of impact factors, and in other disciplines there are not. In some disciplines, OA journals exceed the average ISI journal for citations to older articles (say, those from 1999) and in some fields they don't. Even if the performance of OA journals is in flux in all disciplines, this is a detailed and important snapshot that deserves close study. (Thanks to Jill O'Neill on Information Community News.) |