Rosenbaum, JL "High-profile journals not worth the trouble " SCIENCE 321 (5892). AUG 22 2008. p.1039

[Eugene Garfield]

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TITLE:          High-profile journals not worth the trouble (Letter,

                English)

AUTHOR:         Rosenbaum, JL

SOURCE:         SCIENCE 321 (5892). AUG 22 2008. p.1039 AMER ASSOC

                ADVANCEMENT SCIENCE, WASHINGTON

 

AUTHOR ADDRESS: JL Rosenbaum, Yale Univ, Dept Mol Cellular & Dev Biol,
New

                Haven, CT 06520 USA

 

Science 22 August 2008:
Vol. 321. no. 5892, p. 1039
DOI: 10.1126/science.321.5892.1039b

 

Letters

High-Profile Journals Not Worth the Trouble

Raff, Johnson, and Walter ("Painful publishing," Letters, 4 July, p. 36
<http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/321/5885/36a> ) make some
excellent points about how peer reviewers for journals should conduct
themselves. There is a fine line between being too demanding by
requiring a lot of extra work and making sure a paper with important
results gets out to the scientific public in a timely way. 

In my laboratory, there is no pressure to publish in journals like
Science, Nature, or Cell because we simply do not send our manuscripts
to them anymore, no matter how important or high-impact we think the
work may be. We have found that there is an excellent group of other,
first-line journals of cell biology for which we do not need to subject
ourselves to the type of competition required for publication in these
three journals. 

When I have served on peer-review panels, I have fought against the
common practice of relating grant awards to publication in high-profile
journals such as Science, Nature, and Cell. It is the impact and
importance of the work that matters (thereby requiring the peer
reviewers to read the applicant's papers quite thoroughly), not where
the work is published. 

Joel L. Rosenbaum
Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology
Yale University
New Haven, CT 06520-8103, USA

 

 

 

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