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Want to Publish Paper : Beware of Citation Cartel

Yesterday, I wrote an article the ThomsonReuters, the firm that publishes the impact-factor rankings, has announced the scientific citation index or journal impact factor for the year 2012 on the data acquired throughout year 2011. As a part of scientific community and after publishing a couple of paper here and there, Obviously, I always wait for their new impact factor list every year. Last year, I was quite happy that two journals where I have published were crossed the mark of 4.00. One was BMC Genomics while another one was Journal of Biomolecular Structural Dynamics (JBSD). So when for the first time I came to know about journal impact factor 2012, I started to check the impact factors for these two journals. Unfortunately, impact factor for BMC Genomics comes down by few points while I couldn’t find the JBSD in the list at all. First, I thought that I may make some mistake in searching the name in my excel file, so I start to search it manually and after a couple of minute, I realize that no! The name of JBSD is not present at all. Today, I learned that JBSD is banned from the Thomson Reuters, and they have removed their name from the list. Being honest, there was a surprise in my happiness last year when I saw the impact factor of JBSD because it was a tremendous increase from 1.1 to approx.. 5.0. It takes so many years to increase the impact factor of a journal but for JBSD, it was really fast. On Biochemical matters, Dr. Pedro suggests some points before publishing your work-

· how likely is the journal to find your work "sexy" enough?

· what is its impact factor?

· how long does the journal take from acceptance to online/paper publication?

· how desperate are you to get your paper published?

But my question is, for the most of the researchers, does anything really matters except the impact factor?? All of us want to publish our work in journals with high-impact factor. We never care whether it is abnormal or not. If you visit the JBSD webpage, then you will found that they are still shamelessly announcing the impact factor 4.9. So how many of us know this fact that this year their impact factor is zero. I don’t know about publishes for whom; it seems that, only thing important is money but what about those innocent researchers who publishes their work in JBSD? I used word ‘innocent’ because still most of us never use any tactic to increase the number of citation of our paper except self-citing. However, for those who are interested to know the name of journals that are denied by the Thomson Reuters journal citation report 2012, list is given below.

JCR Title	Full Title
ACTA CHIR ORTHOP TR	Acta Chirurgiae Orthopaedicae et Traumatologiae Cechoslovaca
ACTA PETROL SIN	ACTA PETROLOGICA SINICA
ALTEX-ALTERN ANIM EX	ALTEX-Alternatives to Animal Experimentation
ANAT SCI EDUC	Anatomical Sciences Education
AGR ECON-CZECH	Agricultural Economics-Zemedelska Ekonomika
ARCH BRONCONEUMOL	ARCHIVOS DE BRONCONEUMOLOGIA
BALK J GEOM APPL	Balkan Journal of Geometry and Its Applications
CELL TRANSPLANT	CELL TRANSPLANTATION
ENERG EXPLOR EXPLOIT	ENERGY EXPLORATION & EXPLOITATION
GEMS GEMOL	GEMS & GEMOLOGY
GEOMAGN AERONOMY+	GEOMAGNETISM AND AERONOMY
INT J COMPUT INT SYS	International Journal of Computational Intelligence Systems
INT J INNOV COMPUT I	International Journal of Innovative Computing Information and Control
INT J MOB COMMUN	International Journal of Mobile Communications
INT J WAVELETS MULTI	International Journal of Wavelets Multiresolution and Information Processing
INT REV ELECTR ENG-I	International Review of Electrical Engineering-IREE
INT J INF TECH DECIS	INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY & DECISION MAKING
IRISH POLIT STUD	Irish Political Studies
J FAM STUD	Journal of Family Studies
J HYDRODYN	Journal of Hydrodynamics
J CHIN SOC MECH ENG	Journal of the Chinese Society of Mechanical Engineers
J TRAVEL TOUR MARK	Journal of Travel & Tourism Marketing
J ANAL PSYCHOL	JOURNAL OF ANALYTICAL PSYCHOLOGY
J BIOMOL STRUCT DYN	JOURNAL OF BIOMOLECULAR STRUCTURE & DYNAMICS
J CONSUM PSYCHOL	JOURNAL OF CONSUMER PSYCHOLOGY
LANG LIT	Language and Literature
LAW LIBR J	LAW LIBRARY JOURNAL
LEXIKOS	Lexikos
LISTY CUKROV REPAR	LISTY CUKROVARNICKE A REPARSKE
MANKIND QUART	MANKIND QUARTERLY
MECHANIKA	Mechanika
MED SCI MONITOR	MEDICAL SCIENCE MONITOR
MLJEKARSTVO	Mljekarstvo
NURS SCI QUART	NURSING SCIENCE QUARTERLY
PERSPECT EDUC	PERSPECTIVES IN EDUCATION
PHYS MESOMECH	Physical Mesomechanics
PLANTA DANINHA	Planta Daninha
POLIMERY-W	POLIMERY
PSYCHOGERIATRICS	Psychogeriatrics
REV BRAS FARMACOGN	Revista Brasileira de Farmacognosia-Brazilian Journal of Pharmacognosy
REV CIENC AGRON	Revista Ciencia Agronomica
REV BRAS ZOOTECN	REVISTA BRASILEIRA DE ZOOTECNIA-BRAZILIAN JOURNAL OF ANIMAL SCIENCE
RYNEK ENERGII	Rynek Energii
S AFR J HUM RIGHTS	South African Journal on Human Rights
SPECTROSC SPECT ANAL	SPECTROSCOPY AND SPECTRAL ANALYSIS
TEACH SOCIOL	TEACHING SOCIOLOGY
THESCIENTIFICWORLDJO	TheScientificWorldJOURNAL
TISSUE ENG REGEN MED	Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine
TRANSPORT-VILNIUS	Transport
Z ARB ORGAN	ZEITSCHRIFT FUR ARBEITS-UND ORGANISATIONSPSYCHOLOGIE
Z PADAGOG PSYCHOL	ZEITSCHRIFT FUR PADAGOGISCHE PSYCHOLOGIE

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