[Taxacom] Fwd: Zootaxa taken off of JCR

[Carlos Alberto Martínez Muñoz]

Donat,
The International Union of Biological Sciences signed the Bouchout
Declaration but as far as I can see, it has not signed DORA. I guess that
is the next step to get rid of the JIF in Taxonomy.

In line with other points in your email, academic publishing needs to be
taken back to academia, be institutionally supported and be non-profit. The
current for-profit, private publishing model is unsustainable. The future
of Taxonomy journals is that of publicly-funded, non-profit academic
journals. The European Journal of Taxonomy and the journal Biodiversity
Informatics from Kansas University are good examples.
About the technology, Pensoft's ARPHA platform was developed to advance
open access, not open science. The platform is proprietary, so if we want
that technology into publicly-funded, non-profit academic journals, we need
to redevelop it again. We need it to be open source and free to use for
everyone. The best course of action is to do it integrated with the PKP'S
Open Journal System, so that we can ensure fast implementation in already
existing journals. Funding for co-creation is available from the European
Open Science Cloud (
https://www.eoscsecretariat.eu/news-opinion/eosc-secretariat%E2%80%99s-funding-opportunities-lets-co-create-now
).

Anyway, I guess we agree that technology is not the solution to misused
metrics. I hope that the taxacomers had time to digest the JIF logical
fallacy as I exposed it. The second part is that such fallacy-based metric
was meant to evaluate journals, so that libraries could decide which ones
they should buy or subscribe to. Therefore, the metric is two-times
inappropriate for evaluating researcher's performance. Amazing how the JIF
and related decision-making systems have not crumbled with the weight of
their own failure, isn't it?

Cheers,
Carlos

Carlos A. Martínez Muñoz
Zoological Museum, Biodiversity Unit
FI-20014 University of Turku
Finland
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