CCL: RE: W:Disclose your data, or not publish !

From: Andrew Fant <fant(-)pobox.com>
Subject: CCL: RE: W:Disclose your data, or not publish !
Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2005 15:08:40 -0400

 Sent to CCL by: Andrew Fant [fant(-)pobox.com]
 CCL wrote:
 >
 > Sent to CCL by: Valentin Ananikov [val__ioc.ac.ru]
 >
 >> Sent to CCL by: "Chemical  Bond"
 [chemicalbond001|"|yahoo.com]
 >> Everyday, tons of new publications come out.
 >
 >
 > Would it be possible to develop a numeric criterion to estimate the
 > quality of publications?
 >
 > Without clear criteria for estimating quality, clarity, impact and
 > significance of the publications such discussions tend to be rather
 > philosophical and useless.
 >
 > I am really interesting if there was any research addressing this problem?
 >
 > Best regards,
 > Valentin.
 Valentin,
    You might want to check into ISI's impact ratings.  They are based
 (no surprise here) on their scientific citation index databases, and
 attempt to judge which journals publish papers that tend to be cited
 more and for a longer period of time after the initial publication.
 They have both a generic set of "high impact" journals, and ratings in
 specific fields.
 Hope this helps,
 		Andy