PLOS ONE Output Falls Following Impact Factor Decline

[Isidro F. Aguillo]

Dear Albert:

I obtained the following answer for your question:

PLOS ONE was 1st choice for 41%, 2nd for 32%, 3rd for 19% (according to 
our 2010 author survey).
Matt Hodgkinson ‏@mattjhodgkinson

Best,

On 03/07/2014 16:04, Al Henderson wrote:
> Adminstrative info for SIGMETRICS (for example unsubscribe): 
> http://web.utk.edu/~gwhitney/sigmetrics.html If "the scientific 
> journal system is probably not financially feasible anymore," it is 
> because universities chose to decimate library spending. Beginning 
> around 1970, they began to shift the financial burden of what Vennevar 
> Bush called "conserving the knowledge" from universities to individual 
> readers. Open Access has shifted it further -- to authors.
>
> The decision to promote financial inputs for research, which creates 
> journal articles, while demoting support for the output may have 
> enhanced university profitability. But it fails to serve the basic 
> goals of research.
>
> The drop in PLOS ONE impact factor ratings probably has many causes, 
> but it seems to me authors seeking readers may have found better 
> results from being published in more specialized, well-targeted media. 
> I wonder how many PLOS ONE articles were first rejected by editors 
> elsewhere.
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Albert Henderson
> former editor, Publishing Research Quarterly
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stephen J Bensman <notsjb at LSU.EDU>
> To: SIGMETRICS <SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU>
> Sent: Thu, Jul 3, 2014 8:59 am
> Subject: Re: [SIGMETRICS] PLOS ONE Output Falls Following Impact 
> Factor Decline
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> I understand that it costs $3500 to have an article published in PLOS ONE.
> Times have been tough economically in the world, and this may have something to
> do with the drop in submissions and publication.  You can post on arXiv for
> nothing, and Google will get you there.  Google Scholar metrics show high
> retrieval rates  from certain subject categories in arXiv.  This is the time not
> of the open access journal but the open access institutional repository.  The
> scientific journal system is probably not financially feasible anymore, given
> high cancellation rates by academic libraries, and the open access institutional
> repository will probably replace it..
>
>
> Stephen J Bensman, Ph.D.
> LSU Libraries
> Lousiana State University
> Baton Rouge, LA 70803
> USA
>     
>
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>
> Philip Davis sent:
> |-----------------------------------------------------------------------------|
> |"Can the recent drop in February PLOS ONE publication figures be explained by|
> |a decline in their Impact Factor last June?                                  |
> |                                                                             |
> |see:                                                                         |
> |PLOS ONE Output Falls Following Impact Factor Decline                        |
> |http://wp.me/pcvbl-9sV"                                                     |
> |-----------------------------------------------------------------------------|
>
> Hari M. Gupta, José R. Campanha, and Rosana A. G. Pesce, "Power-Law
> Distributions for the Citation Index of Scientific Publications and Scientists",
> "Brazilian Journal of Physics", vol. 35, no. 4A, December, 2005
> claimed:
> "[. . .]
> Table I: Citations of the 20 most cited physicists from January 1981 to June
> 1997 [. . .] Table II: Citations of the 20 most cited chemists from January 1981
> to June 1997 [. . .] [. . .] It is interesting to note that only two of them
> (P.W. Anderson, and K. A. Muller, at the 13th and 17th places, respectively),
> out of the 20 most cited physicists, and six (J. A. Pople, R. R. Ernst, J. M.
> Lehn, R. E. Smalley, E.
> J. Corey, and K. Tanaka, at the 2nd, 4th, 10th, 12th, 16th, and 20th places,
> respectively), out of the 20 most cited chemists, are Nobel laureates.
> [. . .]"


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Isidro F. Aguillo, HonDr.
The Cybermetrics Lab, IPP-CSIC
Grupo Scimago
Madrid. SPAIN

isidro.aguillo at csic.es
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