This paper investigates whether advertising has a beneficial or deleterious impact on the demand for magazine subscriptions. If consumers consider advertising a ‘bad,’ publishers must subsidize consumers through lower subscription prices or additional editorial content. If advertising is a ‘good,’ then consumers are willing to pay because it adds value to the magazine bundle. We employ data des...

PURPOSE The Journal Impact Factor (JIF) is an index used to compare a journal's quality among academic journals and it is commonly used as a proxy for journal quality. We sought to examine the JIF in order to elucidate the main predictors of the index while generating awareness among scientific community regarding need to modify the index calculation in the attempt to turn it more accurate. M...

Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health (CAPMH) has recently become the official journal of the International Association for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Allied Professions (IACAPAP). This joint venture can have profound implications for the flourishing of scientific research on child and adolescent mental health where it is most needed – in lowand middleincome countries. Alth...

In order to improve the citation impact of Chinese journals, relevant Chinese government agencies have launched a program entitled Citation Impact Upgrading Plan (CIUP) with financial support. Only a few journals that perform better have been screened out for CIUP support. This study tries to figure out if the screening results reflect the bibliometric status of the journals. We compare journal...

Both the impact factor of the journal and immediate full-text availability in Pubmed Central (PMC) have featured in editorials before. In 2004, the editor of the Cardiovascular Journal of Africa (CVJA) lamented, like so many others, the injustice of not having an impact factor, its validity as a tool for measuring science output, and the negative effect of a low perceived impact in drawing atte...

© 2015 Biomedical Journal | Published by Wolters Kluwer Medknow We read with immense interest a correspondence on the impact of Journal Impact Factor (JIF) on research published in the Biomedical Journal. Impact factor, since its inception has been criticized for umpteen number of reasons. What sounded interesting from the title was that the author was touching on the issue of the effect of imp...

I n his editorial “Dear DORA”, Howy Jacobs commented on the recent San Francisco Declaration of Research Assessment (DORA) to address the misuse of the journal impact factor (IF) and discussed alternatives. DORA stipulates that the IF must not be used as a surrogate measure of the quality of individual research articles, or to assess an individual scientist’s contributions in hiring, promotion ...