Thomson Scientific has released a new white paper on OA journal impact factors. Free registration is required to view it. Unfortunately, even though I've registered, the PDF will not load, at least for me today. (The problem is undoubtedly temporary and I'll keep trying.) Meantime, here's an excerpt from the Thomson press release: "Thomson Scientific...released a new White Paper entitled: 'Open Access Journals in the ISI Citation Databases: Analysis of Impact Factors and Citation Patterns.' The findings indicate that journals published under the Open Access model continue to gain impact in the world of scholarly research. Despite ranking lower as a group than those published under traditional models, the growth in the number of OA journals is impressive, and some OA journals rank near the top of their respective fields. Rankings are based on the Journal Impact Factor...." Thomson's first white paper on this subject was released in April 2004.
Posted by
Peter Suber at 11/02/2004 02:47:00 PM.
The open access movement:
Putting peer-reviewed scientific and scholarly literature
on the internet. Making it available free of charge and
free of most copyright and licensing restrictions.
Removing the barriers to serious research.
I recommend the OA tracking project (OATP) as the best way to stay on top of new OA developments. You can read the OATP feed on a blog-like web page or subscribe to it by RSS, email, or Twitter. You can also help build the feed by tagging new developments you encounter.
