{"id":23818,"date":"2024-07-25T14:54:59","date_gmt":"2024-07-25T12:54:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/?p=23818"},"modified":"2024-07-26T07:30:48","modified_gmt":"2024-07-26T05:30:48","slug":"scopus-is-broken","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/sciencesurf\/2024\/07\/scopus-is-broken\/","title":{"rendered":"Scopus is broken"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>was the recent title of a <a href=\"https:\/\/retractionwatch.com\/2024\/07\/17\/scopus-is-broken-just-look-at-its-literature-category\/\">Retraction Watch essay<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"p1\">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.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I can confirm that also the h-index calculation is\u00a0 wrong when looking up my own account &#8211; showing 68 instead of 82.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_23819\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-23819\" style=\"width: 306px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-23819\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Bildschirmfoto-2024-07-25-um-14.51.41-620x215.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"306\" height=\"106\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Bildschirmfoto-2024-07-25-um-14.51.41-620x215.jpg 620w, https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Bildschirmfoto-2024-07-25-um-14.51.41-768x266.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Bildschirmfoto-2024-07-25-um-14.51.41.jpg 866w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 306px) 100vw, 306px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-23819\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">false count by 25\/7\/24<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_23820\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-23820\" style=\"width: 282px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-23820\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Bildschirmfoto-2024-07-25-um-14.52.22.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"282\" height=\"130\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-23820\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">(probably) true count by 25\/7\/24<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"bottom-note\">\n  <span class=\"mod1\">CC-BY-NC Science Surf , accessed 23.04.2026<\/span>\n <\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/sciencesurf\/2024\/07\/scopus-is-broken\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Scopus is broken<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,2],"tags":[4891,166],"class_list":["post-23818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asthma-allergy","category-genetics-biology","tag-scopus","tag-elsevier"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23818","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23818"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23818\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23827,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23818\/revisions\/23827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}