[Taxacom] Open review as a wiki

[Robin Leech]

Enough "wiki" please.
Robin Leech

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From: "Frederick W Schueler" <bckcdb at istar.ca>
To: "TAXACOM" <taxacom at mailman.nhm.ku.edu>
Sent: Thursday, April 03, 2008 4:44 PM
Subject: Re: [Taxacom] Open review as a wiki


> Neal Evenhuis wrote:
>> At 1:15 AM -1000 4/3/08, Richard Pyle wrote:
>>
>> If this is intended to help increase the Impact Factor for taxonomy,
>> it is a futile exercise since the current IF algorithm only takes
>> into account citations of papers published in the last two years (as
>> has been pointed out previously on this list) and taxonomy regularly
>> deals with taxa published decades and centuries old. Thus, giving the
>> literature citation for every taxon cited in a paper will only be
>> useful in increasing the IF (however slightly) if the original
>> descriptions of those organisms were a couple of years old.
>
> * I must say that this IF busieness gets weirder and weirder. It seems
> that somebody needs to formulate a SIF (Sustained Impact Factor), which
> kicks in only when the article is more than 10 years old, and then
> increases with age.
>
> Surely a journal that publishes articles that are still being cited 40
> years later is more important than one that just kicks up a couple of
> years of "Yeti and Zander are completely incorrect when they state..."
> notices.
>
> fred.
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