bims-librar Biomed News
on Biomedical librarianship
Issue of 2018–01–28
two papers selected by
Thomas Krichel, Open Library Society



  1. Sci Eng Ethics. 2018 Jan 20.
      By following a recently published paper entitled "The effect of publishing a highly cited paper on a journal's impact factor: a case study of the Review of Particle Physics" in Learned Publishing, we argue that it is not suitable for journals to bid for the right to publish a review that is likely to be highly cited. A few suggestions are also provided to deal with the special case of the Review of Particle Physics phenomenon.
    Keywords:  Conflict of interest; Highly cited review; Journal impact factor; Review of Particle Physics
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.1007/s11948-017-0016-y