How should scientific authors choose the best journal to disseminate their research work? If this question was formulated two centuries ago by a biomedical researcher in Europe, the answer would be quite simple: decide first in which language the message should be delivered (e.g., English, German, French, Russian, Latin, Spanish) and then pick one out of the approximately 100 science journals which in that period were publishing papers in one of those languages. The world of scholarly publishing at the beginning of nineteenth century was so small (https://conscicom.org/) that scientists could quickly decide to which journal to send the manuscript.Times…
Scientific journal publishing is too complex to be measured by a single metric: time to review the role of the impact factor!
- 24 August 2016