If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster And treat those two impostors just the same; If you can bear to hear the truth you’ve spoken Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools, Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken, And stoop and build ‘em up with worn-out tools: Rudyard Kipling … Read more
It is that time of year again! A bit like Christmas, now is the time when journal editors wait expectantly to open their presents; or in this case present singular. I’m talking about the annual release of Impact Factors from ISI. I’m not going to go through all the reasons why Impact Factors may not be the best way to judge scientific research. Katharine made some comments about that last year and I haven’t changed my opinion much since I railed against their tyranny at another journal. But Impact Factors and the other citation metrics probably say something about a journal so I thought I’d give you the numbers for Nature Protocols and say what I’m taking from them. Read more
When we first launched “Nature Protocols “:https://www.nature.com/nprot I was keen to get our protocols indexed by all the big players. Whilst there was going to be a marketing campaign with ads in Nature and banner ads all over nature.com I knew we’d only get real users when people did their literature search and one of our protocols came top of the list. We wanted to be something researchers needed and found useful. However, alongside getting listed in the ISI Web of Knowledge came the news we’d also be eligible for an Impact Factor. It was clearly something scientists cared about. A lot of our early correspondence was about what our Impact Factor was. Read more
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