https://thepublicationplan.com/2020/07/16/journal-citation-counts-increase-despite-discontinuation-from-scopus/ A central online news resource for professionals involved in the development of medical publications and involved in publication planning and medical writing. Mon, 20 Jul 2020 10:04:33 +0000 hourly 1 https://thepublicationplan.com/2020/07/16/journal-citation-counts-increase-despite-discontinuation-from-scopus/comment-page-1/#comment-5464 Mon, 20 Jul 2020 10:04:33 +0000 https://thepublicationplan.com/?p=6997#comment-5464 Interesting study. I didn’t vote because I couldn’t make my mind up but am beyond “not sure”. Removing indexed articles from a discontinued journal would essentially be a blanket retraction without a retraction notice. Leaving them there risks substandard articles remaining discoverable, but what if the journal started out OK then slid in to poor practice? Is there not an argument that some articles should stay there on merit? Difficult with any predatory journal really – articles submitted in good faith to predatory journals may still be good articles, but in a dodgy place, and alongside other articles deliberately sent to somewhere the authors knew they’d get an easy ride.

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