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Scopus is broken

was the recent title of a Retraction Watch essay

the problems with the Scopus journal rankings, however, run much deeper. The issue is not that inflated citation numbers have occasionally propelled impostor journals to the top of the list. Rather, at least in my own field of literary studies, the ranking makes no sense whatsoever.

I can confirm that also the h-index calculation is  wrong when looking up my own account – showing 68 instead of 82.

false count by 25/7/24
(probably) true count by 25/7/24

 


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