GEOG 205 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Academic Journal, Shortwave Radio, Impact Factor
9 Feb 2016
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Geog 205 18 jan mon: major purposes of peer review, to determine which papers submitted to scientific journal are. Good science that journal is proud to publish. Journals do *not* want to publish unimportant studies or poorly executed/flawed studies. Furthermore, scientists do not want to use up valuable time reading unimportant or poor work: to provide researchers with feedback. Even best research may have some issues that author cannot see. Journals in various disciplines have reputations regarding quality of work that they accept for publication. Good researchers will want to publish good science in well- respected high-quality journals! Measure reflecting average number of citations to recent articles published in that journal. Used to indicate relative importance of journal within its field. Journals with higher impact factors seen to be more important than those with lower ones. Having paper published in nature is prestigious, leading to promotions, grant funding, and attention from mainstream media.
