This won't really work because there are hundreds of non-predatory journals
that have no impact factor.
Further, impact factor is confounded by a multitude of issues central to
why so many have been rejecting it.
It is already a fact that impact factor is a better predictor of whether a
paper will
Dear Jorge,
good question!
One could study it by taking paired data, let us say: average article
processing fee (APF) and Impact Factor (IF). (Admittedly a lot of data
gathering work!)
The first thing would be to make a scatter plot and look wether the data
are compatible with a linear or a
In general, journals that charge to access articles TEND to have lower
impact factors than those that are open access when comparing apples to
apples. Since many journals that are not open access do not charge for
publication, there could be some kind of correlation here. But it is
probably spuri
Are page charges related to Impact Factor?
Dear Colleagues:
I just finished listening to a great talk of recent scholarly publication
trends and, as I reflect on the talk, I wonder if any of you know whether
there is a relationship between the Thomson Reuters IF and page charges for
scholarly jou
