Weed out poor papers for clear view of impact
You report on a study that found no correlation between manuscript rejection rates and a journal’s impact factor (“High rejection rates by journals ‘pointless’”, News, 28 January). But why would one...
You report on a study that found no correlation between manuscript rejection rates and a journal’s impact factor (“High rejection rates by journals ‘pointless’”, News, 28 January). But why would one...
You report on the abstract of a Canadian study (“How to boost scientific production? A statistical analysis of research funding and other influencing factors”, published in Scientometrics) that...
Re the article “Top 15 universities in the Arab world announced” and the leader “Deserts begin to bloom” (27 January), it was pleasing to see universities from Lebanon and Egypt in the top 10...
“Students aren’t always experts in technology” (News, 26 January), but neither, it seems, are those in management and IT departments. When universities complain that they lack the financial resources...
France is the latest nation to take degree fraud seriously (“French education minister announces new degree qualifications database”, 22 January), but as we’ve learned from running Higher Education...

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