Bobby Pickering, Thomson ISI cites an equal impact, Information World Review, May 13, 2004. Excerpt: "Thomson ISI vice-president of development, Jim Pringle, said...'We're often asked by researchers "If I publish in an open access journal, will my work carry the same weight?", and we're now able to tell them, on the strength of this initial evidence, there is hardly any measureable difference.'...Pringle said OA journals had top-end and bottom-end profiles on the scale --just as traditional journals did. 'Let's take the Journal of Clinical Investigation, which is an open access journal that has an impact factor of 14.051, which is third highest of 74 in its disciplinary category "Medicine, Research & Experimental". Another example is BMC Cancer, which is at the lower end of its category --but it's a new journal and it can take a long time before it shows up on impact.' "
Posted by
Peter Suber at 5/14/2004 11:31:00 AM.
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.
