Learn more about retractions, the draft NIH Public Access Policy for publications and the new release of Journal Citation Reports (JCR).
New NISO Standard for Retractions, Removals and Expressions of Concern
The National Information Standards Organization (NISO) announced the publication of the Communication of Retractions, Removals, and Expressions of Concern (CREC) Recommended Practice (NISO RP-45-2024). The NISO Recommended Practice establishes best practices for the creation, transfer, and display of retraction-related metadata, ensuring that participants (publishers, aggregators, full-text hosts, libraries, and researchers) can communicate retraction information quickly and enabling readers who discover a publication to readily identify its status.
Retractions in PubMed are available here. For more information, see: Errata, Retractions, and Other Linked Citations in PubMed.
NIH Draft Public Access Policy
The NIH issued a notice seeking comments from the public on the on the NIH Draft Public Access Policy and two supplemental draft guidance documents regarding (1) government use license and rights and (2) costs for publications. NIH will accept comments on the Draft Policy until August 19, 2024.
2023 Journal Citation Reports (2024 release)
Clarivate Analytics recently released the 2024 edition of Journal Citation Reports (JCR). The 2024 release includes rankings across subject categories for over 21,800 journals from 112 countries. The release includes unified rankings among all journals indexed in the Web of Science Core Collection databases including the Emerging Sources Citation Index™ (ESCI). For example, a psychiatry journal listed in Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE)™ and Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI)™ will now be ranked in one unified Psychiatry ranking rather than two.
For more information:
- Clarivate Analytics. Clarivate Reveals World’s Leading and Trusted Journals with the 2024 Journal Citation Reports. June 20, 2024.
- Clarivate Analytics. Journal Citation Reports 2024: Simplifying journal evaluation. June 20, 2024.
Readings
Is science’s dominant funding model broken? Nature. 2024 Jun;630(8018):793. doi: 10.1038/d41586-024-02080-7. PMID: 38926625.
Wang D. How I’m using AI tools to help universities maximize research impacts. Nature. 2024 Jun;630(8018):794. doi: 10.1038/d41586-024-02081-6. PMID: 38926626.
Reynolds M. Science is full of errors. Bounty hunters are here to find them. Wired. June 21, 2024.
Nogueira LA, Rein JO. Guest Post – Chatbots: To Cite Or Not To Cite? (Part I). The Scholarly Kitchen. June 19, 2024.
Nogueira LA, Rein JO. Guest Post – The case for not citing chatbots as information sources (Part II). The Scholarly Kitchen. June 20, 2024.