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The impact factor (IF) or journal impact factor (JIF) of an academic journal is a scientometric index calculated by Clarivate that reflects the yearly mean number of citations of articles published in the last two years in a given journal, as indexed by Clarivate's Web of Science.
The founding editor was Ronald Gottesman, [6] who began the journal in the middle 1970s. Later editors have included Katherine S. Kovács and Michael Renov. [7] The journal was established in 1976 as the Quarterly Review of Film Studies, obtaining its current title in 1989. [8]
Scientific Reports is a peer-reviewed open-access scientific mega journal published by Nature Portfolio, covering all areas of the natural sciences. The journal was established in 2011. [ 1 ] The journal states that their aim is to assess solely the scientific validity of a submitted paper, rather than its perceived importance, significance, or ...
In 2014, Life implanted an open peer review system, [19] under which the peer-review reports and authors' responses are published as an integral part of the final version of each article. Since 2016, Synlett is experimenting with closed crowd peer review. The article under review is sent to a pool of 80+ expert reviewers who then ...
MDPI (Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute) is a publisher of open-access scientific journals.It publishes over 390 peer-reviewed, open access journals. [2] [3] MDPI is among the largest publishers in the world in terms of journal article output, [4] [5] and is the largest publisher of open access articles.
Open irony refers to the situation where a scholarly journal article advocates open access but the article itself is only accessible by paying a fee to the journal publisher to read the article. [ 233 ] [ 234 ] [ 235 ] This has been noted in many fields, with more than 20 examples appearing since around 2010, including in widely-read journals ...
This is a list of open-access journals by field. The list contains notable journals which have a policy of full open access. It does not include delayed open access journals, hybrid open access journals, or related collections or indexing services.
In 2001, BioMed Central was the first publisher to carry out open peer review as default, by openly posting named peer reviewer reports alongside published articles as part of a 'pre-publication history' for all medical journals in the BMC series. As of 2020, 70 BMC journals were operating fully open peer review. [8]