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By following a recently published paper entitled “The effect of publishing a highly cited paper on a journal’s impact factor: a case study of the Review of Particle Physics” in Learned Publishing, we argue that it is not suitable for journals to bid for the right to publish a review that is likely to be highly cited. A few suggestions are also provided to deal with the special case of the Review of Particle Physics phenomenon.
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http://ipscience-help.thomsonreuters.com/incitesLiveJCR/JCRGroup/usingJCRWisely.html. Accessed on December 7, 2017.
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This research is partly funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (#71433006, #91746202, #71373117) and Zhejiang Provincial Natural Science Foundation of China (#LQ18G030010). This letter has benefited greatly from the kind help of the editor.
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Liu, W., Zhu, J., Zuo, C. et al. Is it Suitable for a Journal to Bid for Publishing a Review That is Likely to be Highly Cited?. Sci Eng Ethics 25, 647–649 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11948-017-0016-y
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