Terms in publications

Salam, hey there..

Just for a recent update, i'm now being a bit busy with the workloads so my free time has been reduce (that is why i rarely updated my blog..haha)..

By the way, in today's entry i'm going to discuss about terms that we seldom heard..
-SCOPUS cited
-ISI (Thompson Reuters)
-Peer-viewed journal
-Impact factor

Let's start with SCOPUS and ISI (Thompson Reuters):

We might wonder and seldom heard about these terms. But do we understand the terms? Ok now, SCOPUS which was launched in November 2004, is the largest abstract and citation database containing both peer-reviewed research literature and quality web sources. With over 19,000 titles from more than 5,000 international publishers, SciVerse Scopus offers researchers a quick, easy and comprehensive resource to support their research needs in the scientific, technical, medical and social sciences fields and, more recently, also in the arts and humanities. This means that i u r able to get a publication, ur manuscript is sometimes can be acess by other people using this database..Meanwhile, ISI Thomson Reuters (formerly ISI) Web of Knowledge is today's premier research platform for information in the sciences, social sciences, arts, and humanities. ISI is actually an organization which gathered all research field in one platform..The different between the two is, SCOPUS = database, ISI = website

Next, is the peer-review journals...Peer review is a process of self-regulation by a profession or a process of evaluation involving qualified individuals within the relevant field. Peer review methods are employed to maintain standards, improve performance and provide credibility. In academia peer review is often used to determine an academic paper's suitability for publication and it can be divided into two;

1) Anonymous peer review, also called blind review, is a system of prepublication peer review of scientific articles or papers for journals or academic conferences by reviewers who are known to the journal editor or conference organizer but whose names are not given to the article's author. The reviewers do not know the author's identity, as any identifying information is stripped from the document before review. The system is intended to reduce or eliminate bias, although this has been challenged.
2) Open peer review describes a scientific literature concept and process, central to which is the various transparency and disclosure of the identities of those reviewing scientific publications. The concept thus represents a departure from, and an alternative to, the incumbent anonymous peer review process, in which non-disclosure of these identities toward the public – and toward the authors of the work under review – is default practice. The open peer review concept appears to constitute a response to modern criticisms of the incumbent system; therefore, its emergence may be partially attributed to these phenomena.

Impact factor: often abbreviated IF, is a measure reflecting the average number of citations to articles published in science and social science journals. It is frequently used as a proxy for the relative importance of a journal within its field, with journals with higher impact factors deemed to be more important than those with lower ones.

p/s: some usefull information to be understood.. =)