[Tccc] New citation guidelines imposed by Telecommunication Systems Journal

Francesco Potortì Potorti
Fri May 11 10:56:51 EDT 2012


Olivier Bonaventure:
>> I recently decided to submit to the Telecommunication Systems Journal a
>> paper that we considered in scope for the journal. Shortly after our
>> submission, we received the following email :
>
>[snip]
>
>> Please make sure that your modified paper meets this new policy.  When
>> you send your modified paper, please list the new references in your
>> e-mail listing their reference numbers in the modified paper and make a
>> statement in the e-mail stating that the paper is in compliance with the
>> new policy. 

I think I would find this unacceptable.

James P.G. Sterbenz:
>I had a similar requirement imposed on me for a paper in IEEE
>Transactions on Aerospace Systems and Electronics.

That is a surprise to me.  I would never expect such a requirement from
IEEE journals.

>One wonders if this isn't journals deciding that
>this is a way to raise their citation indices...

Well, soliciting citations to the same journal is a well-known technique
for raising the citation index.  I find it unpleasant, but authors can
ignore it.  But *requiring* it is a different thing...

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