[JoPP-Public] Inclusion in Scopus or ThomsonReuters Web of Science

Sun Oct 30 18:03:40 CET 2016

> On Thu, Oct 6, 2016 at 4:38 AM, Mathieu ONeil <mathieu.oneil at anu.edu.au>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi all
>>
>>
>> It's been suggested to me that it would be useful to get JoPP some more
>> institutional recognition. Does anyone have a clue about whether it would
>> be desirable and / or advisable to get JoPP listed into Scopus or
>> ThomsonReuters Web of Science? Scopus is run by Elsevier which is obvs
>> not great and after a brief look on their site I could not find info on how
>> to be indexed. On the other hand Thomson does indicate what their
>> criteria for inclusion is:
>>
>> http://wokinfo.com/essays/journal-selection-process
>>
>>
>> However they seem to have requirements which may be hard to meet - such as
>> a DOI for each article...? is this a way to exclude non-corporate
>> publications? Would pursuing this be a good idea? Do we need to revisit the
>> idea of raising money for JoPP?

Dariusz Jemielniak <darekj at kozminski.edu.pl> writes:

> I think it would be awesome to get to the Web of Science list, as many
> universities do not count publications elsewhere for tenure reviews, etc.
>
> However, I think that DOI is the least difficult thing: we would have to be
> regularly cited in WoS journals, with a prety tight window of measure (2
> years, AFAIK, that is: they check how many times an article is cited on
> average in WoS journals, within 2 years since publication).

I read the link above but it is quite vague -- not sure if there is a
precise way to check if we are eligible or not. :o

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