[Tccc] New citation guidelines imposed by Telecommunication Systems Journal

Mukul Goyal mukul
Fri May 11 10:46:48 EDT 2012


This shows how rotten the impact factor business is.

Thanks
Mukul Goyal

----- Original Message -----
From: "James P.G. Sterbenz" <jpgs at sterbenz.org>
To: "TCCC" <tccc at lists.cs.columbia.edu>
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Sent: Friday, May 11, 2012 8:31:42 AM
Subject: Re: [Tccc] New citation guidelines imposed by Telecommunication	Systems Journal


On 11 May 2012, at 08:25, Olivier Bonaventure wrote:

> Dear colleagues,
> 
> 
> 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. Please include all files for the paper in the e-mail with
> the modified paper. No further action will be taken with this submission
> until the modified paper is received."
> 
> I've never seen such a requirement and have immediately withdrawn our
> paper. You might consider this new requirement if you plan to submit to
> this journal...

I had a similar requirement imposed on me for a paper in IEEE Transactions on Aerospace Systems and Electronics.  I was pretty surprised at that.  One wonders if this isn't journals deciding that this is a way to raise their citation indices...

Cheers,
James

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