On Sat, 24 Feb 2024 06:27:18 -0500, Jean-Claude Guédon <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>The financing issue is real. However, as has already been pointed out by
>several people on this forum, if funding agencies and libraries (where
>the money largely resides) looked at the situation lucidly, they would
>finance diamond journals rather than pay APCs. If researchers complain
>because they want to publish in high IF journals (prestige and
>visibility seeking), they should be told that funding agencies and
>libraries are interested in quality knowledge, not prestige or even
>visibility. 

I really like this idea, but it has been a challenge for me in practice. A lot of our faculty (at least in our Cancer Center, which I'm most familiar with) are convinced that the NIH will only care about articles published in high-IF (>10) journals, so from their perspective, publishing in a low-IF or no-IF journal would lower their chances on the next grant application. I know the NIH considers a lot more than just IF, but I haven't seen any research about the impact of IF on grant applications. And the number of high-IF, diamond, cancer journals is pretty small.

Does anyone have good evidence that IF *isn't* a major factor in grant funding? If so, I would love to hear about it so I can make a stronger case to our faculty for publishing in diamond journals.

Collin

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