[Taxacom] IF satus

[John Grehan]

Thanks Jim. That is what I thought so not sure why Zootaxa editors are
still concerned about this.

On Fri, Nov 20, 2020 at 10:36 AM Whitfield, James Bryan <
jwhitfie at illinois.edu> wrote:

> Hi John
> They reversed the decision on the IF, so you should be OK.
> Jim
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> > On Nov 20, 2020, at 9:35 AM, John Grehan via Taxacom <
> taxacom at mailman.nhm.ku.edu> wrote:
> >
> > Could someone please remind me about the situation regarding the IF
> status
> > of journals. I recently received notice from a Zootaxa  editor about
> > being stripped
> > from its IF due to self-citation of 23.5%. I have an article with
> self-citation
> > at 36.8% which is unavoidable given that there are < than 5 people
> working
> > consistently on the group in question. I have been asked to reduce the
> > citations if possible, but I thought that the IF restriction was lifted
> in
> > which case it's not of concern. Enlightenment would be helpful here.
> >
> > John Grehan
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