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Register Now for “The Future of Scientific Publishing: An Insight Into Book Innovation at Springer Nature”

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Join us and discover how Springer Nature is changing how they publish books through new technology and innovative solutions. Presentations will focus on Springer’s new platform towards a personalized book and machine-generated literature overview, as well as an editor’s experience working on machine-generated text in collaboration with a subject matter expert and author. 

You’ll also have an opportunity to participate in an interactive exercise where you can share your thoughts on the future of scientific publishing.

Date: Wednesday, March 9, 2022
Time: 12:30 PM to 2:00 PM, EST
Location: Zoom Webinar – Register Now

Speakers

Julia von Graberg, Industry Director, Springer Nature – Julia joined Springer Nature in 2016 as Director Pharmaceutical & Biotech Markets and in 2017 Julia’s role expanded to all of the Life Sciences, including the Health & Hospitals market.  Julia holds a PhD in Chemistry from the University of Queensland, Australia (2008). Before joining Springer Nature, Julia held books editorial positions at Wiley and CSIRO Publishing.

Janina Krieger, Project Manager, Books Publishing Solutions, Springer Nature – Janina is responsible for setting up new workflows and developing new products based on AI.  She joined the organization in 2017, where she worked in the editorial department before moving to Books Publishing Solutions in 2020.

Aaron Schiller, Associate Editor, Earth Sciences, Geography and Environment, Springer Nature – Aaron is focused on acquiring authored and edited books in oceanography, environmental science, sustainable development, geography (human and physical), and interdisciplinary topics related to his areas of responsibility.

Tools for Ranking Journals by Impact

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Many considerations should factor into a well-made decision about which journal(s) an author should target for manuscript submission. (For more info, see the MSK Library’s Support for Authors LibGuide.) 

As they explore their options, it’s often useful for authors to get a sense of how reputable a particular journal title is based on how this journal ranks – in terms of impact – versus other journals within the same discipline. In general, journal impact metrics are generated using a mathematical algorithm that is largely based on article citation counts over a pre-specified time period. Citation count data can provide some indication of a journal’s influence and reach, particularly when considered relative to other journals.

Below are three tools (two subscription databases available via the MSK Library and one free online search engine) that can be used to generate journal impact ranking information that can aid with the journal selection process.

Journal Impact FactorsTM – and the Journal Citation Reports (JCR) rankings that they lead to – are generated using two years-worth of article citation data compiled in Clarivate’s Web of Science database. This metric has been around for over 50 years, and was developed by the originator of the citation analysis concept, Eugene Garfield, who is often considered the grandfather of information science and scientometrics. 

See more details on how the Journal Impact FactorTM is calculated.

Elsevier generates it own impact metric, called the CiteScoreTM, by using the citations to articles, reviews, conference papers, book chapters and data papers published over a four-year publication window. Similar to Clarivate, Elsevier can generate these metrics because the data needed for the calculations is available from its flagship Scopus database.

See more details on how the CiteScoreTM is calculated.

Google Scholar, although not a structured database populated with records that have standard fields (as is the case in JCR and Elsevier’s Scopus Sources) still collects citation data that it compiles via the Google Scholar search crawler. It then uses citation data to generate an h-index type metric for the entire journal, as opposed to the usual use of the h-index to evaluate the productivity of an individual researcher. Google Scholar h5 metrics are calculations based on the citation count to published items from the last five complete calendar years.

See more details on how Google Scholar h-based metrics are calculated.

Be sure to check out the MSK Library’s Measuring Research Impact class and the Evaluating Journal Quality class if you have questions, or Ask Us! 

New Database! iThenticate

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The MSK Library provides all MSK staff with access to plagiarism detection software through iThenticate.

iThenticate is a tool for researchers and writers to check their original works for potential plagiarism. This database will check against 93% of Top Cited Journal content and 70+ billion current and archived web pages.

Check out our Support for Authors guide for more writing and publishing resources.