From: "Jim O'Donnell" <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2016 20:53:11 -0500

Humanists frankly pay no attention to impact factor, not least because
the measures of impact don't capture citations in the vast majority of
books, which is where impact is most important for us.

Jim O'Donnell
ASU


On Tue, Jan 12, 2016 at 7:31 PM, LIBLICENSE <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> From: Ari Belenkiy <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2016 23:11:49 -0800
>
> Thank you.
>
> But why its impact factor is so low, 0.5-0.6?
>
> http://www.oxfordjournals.org/our_journals/past/editorial_board.html
>
> Or is it a standard one in humanities for now?  Or was it higher in
> the "early glorious" period?
>
> Ari Belenkiy
> Vancouver BC
>
>
> On Sun, Jan 10, 2016 at 4:04 PM, LIBLICENSE <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>
>> From: "Jim O'Donnell" <[log in to unmask]>
>> Date: Fri, 8 Jan 2016 14:44:56 -0700
>>
>> I would look up articles there by Lawrence Stone, Brent Shaw, Chris
>> Wickham, Jacques LeGoff, Bossy himself, or just Grafton and Jardine's
>> classic "How Harvey Read His Livy".  The general recognition that it
>> is a journal to be reckoned with is undoubted, even by those who
>> remonstrate with its politics.  My point in mentioning it here was
>> that (a) they just did something interesting and (b) the something
>> interesting (making the work of deceased worthies permanently
>> OA-accessible) is replicable wherever one sees merit in scholarly
>> journals whose product is expected to have a lasting value.  The value
>> of that idea is independent of individual assessments of the status of
>> the journal.
>>
>> Jim O'Donnell
>> ASU
>>
>> On Thu, Jan 7, 2016 at 6:15 PM, LIBLICENSE <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>> > From: Ari Belenkiy <[log in to unmask]>
>> > Date: Wed, 6 Jan 2016 21:58:31 -0800
>> >
>> > Hi Jim,
>> >
>> > Can you please recall the "stellar" articles published at P&P?
>> >
>> > I might consider a submission on history of literature.
>> >
>> > Ari Belenkiy
>> >
>> > On Tue, Jan 5, 2016 at 4:22 PM, LIBLICENSE <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> From: "Jim O'Donnell" <[log in to unmask]>
>> >> Date: Tue, 5 Jan 2016 15:49:22 -0700
>> >>
>> >> This interesting note crossed my screen today:
>> >>
>> >> http://www.oxfordjournals.org/our_journals/past/john-bossy.html
>> >>
>> >> Past and Present is a stellar journal -- career-making to have a
>> >> couple of articles in it; and Bossy was a path-breaker and innovator
>> >> and very distinguished scholar.  I like to see this because I worry
>> >> that scholars are only slowly realizing that if they want their own
>> >> work to be known and read and influential when they are retired or
>> >> gone, making sure paper copies are in libaries and paperbacks are
>> >> available for sale form a good university press just won't do it.
>> >> Even a Bossy isn't going to make much money for his estate when dead,
>> >> and certainly not from P&P articles, so better to work out the way to
>> >> make the scholar known and visible and discoverable.
>> >>
>> >> Jim O'Donnell
>> >> ASU