[Tccc] New citation guidelines imposed by Telecommunication Systems Journal
James P.G. Sterbenz
jpgs
Fri May 11 09:31:42 EDT 2012
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 I've never seen such a requirement and have immediately withdrawn our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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