{"title":"The Usefulness of Impact Factors in Serial Selection: A Rank and Mean Analysis Using Ecology Journals","authors":"Klaus G Altmann , G.E Gorman","doi":"10.1016/S0364-6408(98)00004-0","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/S0364-6408(98)00004-0","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This paper investigates the usefulness of ISI Journal Impact Factors in making serial selection and deselection decisions. It shows that Impact Factors do not remain relatively constant from year to year; specifically, the rank order of 56 ecology titles was found to vary considerably over time. The median year-to-year variation in Impact Factors was found to be 21.9%, and the average variability of Impact Factors over a five-year period was 13.2%. The study also found a considerable degree of overlap in the average Impact Factor of serials in the ISI’s Ecology category. These findings cast doubt on the usefulness of relying on a single year’s JCR (Journal Citation Reports) to make informed selection/deselection decisions.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":100876,"journal":{"name":"Library Acquisitions: Practice & Theory","volume":"22 2","pages":"Pages 147-159"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1998-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/S0364-6408(98)00004-0","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72073594","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The changing economic model of scholarly publishing : Uncertainty, complexity, and multimedia serials","authors":"John Cox","doi":"10.1016/S0364-6408(98)00005-2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/S0364-6408(98)00005-2","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":100876,"journal":{"name":"Library Acquisitions: Practice & Theory","volume":"13 1","pages":"161-166"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1998-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75559100","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Transforming the Organization, Part 1","authors":"John R Secor , David A Swords","doi":"10.1016/S0364-6408(98)00003-9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/S0364-6408(98)00003-9","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Organizations are living, not engineered, systems, and changing them is best done “biologically,” through understanding the sometimes burdensome appliances their evolution conjures. Institutional evolution is not some logical <em>progressus</em> toward a goal by the shortest route or with the smallest expenditure of energy. It is not a matter of simple observable cause and effect, but a complex web of adaptive behavior influencing behavior. Leaders who aspire to transform organizations are unlikely to succeed unless they understand the dynamics of their environment; conceptualize and put into action strategies that will enable the organization to gain and maintain a competitive advantage; and include their people, all along the way, in the process.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":100876,"journal":{"name":"Library Acquisitions: Practice & Theory","volume":"22 2","pages":"Pages 139-145"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1998-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/S0364-6408(98)00003-9","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72073590","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Changing Economic Model of Scholarly Publishing: Uncertainty, Complexity, and Multimedia Serials","authors":"John E Cox","doi":"10.1016/S0364-6408(98)00005-2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/S0364-6408(98)00005-2","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":100876,"journal":{"name":"Library Acquisitions: Practice & Theory","volume":"22 2","pages":"Pages 161-166"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1998-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/S0364-6408(98)00005-2","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72073593","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}