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If I was an evil journal editor I would use the metrics on biorivx to accept or reject papers. This would make it easy to predict the future impact factor and h
by danieltillett 11y ago
If I was an evil journal editor I would use the metrics on biorivx to accept or reject papers. This would make it easy to predict the future impact factor and help you game the impact factor of your journal.
- stuxnet79 11y agoThis is actually very clever. With this we will just be moving the goal posts but at least it will prove to scientists that any notoriety acquired in the pre-print stage can lead to later career success.
- danieltillett 11y agoIt is actually quite hard to predict which papers will become hits and which become misses. If I look back over my own papers there were a few I knew were going to (minor) hits, but quite a few of the papers I thought would be of interest were ignored while others I thought were pretty minor attracted a lot of interest. One area I have never understood (apart from editor laziness) is letting the authors write the article title and abstract. So many great papers are overlooked because the authors wrote a boring or misleading title or abstract.