Is it Suitable for a Journal to Bid for Publishing a Review That is Likely to be Highly Cited?

Weishu Liu; Junwen Zhu; Chao Zuo; Haiyan Wang

doi:10.1007/s11948-017-0016-y

Is it Suitable for a Journal to Bid for Publishing a Review That is Likely to be Highly Cited?

Sci Eng Ethics. 2019 Apr;25(2):647-649. doi: 10.1007/s11948-017-0016-y. Epub 2018 Jan 20.

Authors

Weishu Liu¹, Junwen Zhu², Chao Zuo³, Haiyan Wang⁴

Affiliations

¹ School of Information Management and Engineering, Zhejiang University of Finance and Economics, Hangzhou, 310018, Zhejiang, China.
² Graduate School of Education, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, 200240, China.
³ School of Management and E-Business, Zhejiang Gongshang University, Hangzhou, 310018, Zhejiang, China.
⁴ School of Management and E-Business, Zhejiang Gongshang University, Hangzhou, 310018, Zhejiang, China. njue2010@163.com.

PMID: 29353362
DOI: 10.1007/s11948-017-0016-y

Abstract

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.

Publication types

Letter
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Conflict of Interest*
Dissent and Disputes
Humans
Journal Impact Factor*
Periodicals as Topic / ethics*
Physics
Publishing / ethics*
Review Literature as Topic*