{"id":424,"date":"2012-08-31T14:39:02","date_gmt":"2012-08-31T12:39:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/boboh\/?p=424"},"modified":"2012-08-31T14:39:02","modified_gmt":"2012-08-31T12:39:02","slug":"research-with-impact","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/boboh\/2012\/08\/31\/research-with-impact\/","title":{"rendered":"Research with impact"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After Stephen&#8217;s posts about impact factors and the like, I have a couple of serious posts brewing. But for now (and because it&#8217;s Friday), I want to admit to my reaction today to an advert I got about a journal, which told me that I should Stand Out in my Field, and Be Visible by submitting to this journal (run by a reputable publisher). One of the reasons for publishing there was that the journal has High Impact: it&#8217;s impact factor is 1.95.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Pah!&#8221; I thought. I&#8217;m executive editor of a journal with an impact factor over 5. In fact <a href=\"http:\/\/methodsblog.wordpress.com\/2012\/06\/29\/mee-has-an-impact-factor\/\">5.093<\/a> (that 3 at the end is terribly important, no matter what anyone tells you). Why would I want to publish is such a lowly journal?<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, the journal has published a paper about TARDIGRADES IN SPACE. That beats impact factors any day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After Stephen&#8217;s posts about impact factors and the like, I have a couple of serious posts brewing. But for now (and because it&#8217;s Friday), I want to admit to my reaction today to an advert I got about a journal, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/boboh\/2012\/08\/31\/research-with-impact\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-publishing","category-silliness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/boboh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/boboh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/boboh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/boboh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/boboh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/boboh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/boboh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/boboh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/boboh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}