Like Fytton, I have edited and been on the editorial board of several
journals during my career and I have never experienced this sort of
pressure. If I had, the pressurisers (is that a word?) would have got a very
dusty answer as anyone who knows me would expect!
Graham Cornish
www.copyrightcircle.co.uk
----- Original Message -----
From: "Fytton Rowland" <J.F.Rowland_at_LBORO.AC.UK>
To: <AMERICAN-SCIENTIST-OPEN-ACCESS-FORUM_at_LISTSERVER.SIGMAXI.ORG>
Sent: Wednesday, March 26, 2003 12:29 PM
Subject: Re: Query about journal (not author) self-citation rates
> As an author, I have published in quite a variety of journals in my time.
> Earlier in my career, I was an editorial staff member at a learned-society
> publisher. In neither case have I ever been aware of any pressure on
authors
> to cite references in the same journal. As a referee, I have never
suggested
> adding extra references for this reason, though I have for other reasons.
>
> This is all anecdotal, but I feel that this may be a non-problem. I might
> be over-optimistic - maybe I have only ever had connections with the more
> scrupulous end of the journals market.
>
> Fytton Rowland, Loughborough University, UK.
>
Received on Wed Mar 26 2003 - 14:20:31 GMT