Clarivate will strip eLife of Impact Factor
They never wanted one but will be interesting to see how this affects submissions given academia's obsession with it
retractionwatch.com/2024/11/13…
eLife won’t get an impact factor, says Clarivate
Clarivate, the data company for scholarly publications, has decided to continue indexing some content from eLife in Web of Science, after reevaluating the open-access biology journal’s unusual prac…Retraction Watch
El Duvelle
in reply to Richard Sever • • •On the bright side*, they at least recognized that the peer-reviewed content is of good enough quality to keep being indexed by them:
(*) if you consider that being indexed by Clarivate is a good thing 🤷
Richard Sever
in reply to Richard Sever • • •"If eLife provides a feed of articles that excludes any deemed “incomplete” or “inadequate,” Clarivate will continue indexing the rest".
But will eLife...? Because that'd be tantamount to admitting to making the kind of binary decision the process is intended to kill...
El Duvelle
in reply to Richard Sever • • •