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How Valued is Your Article?: Scrutinising the Parameters

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  Majority of reputed educational institutions in India values professionals with multiple publications, simultaneously faculties themselves also put equivalent importance to it (kumar & Israel, 2013). Along with increase in number of publications, the quality of publications also has become an increasing concern among professionals and institutions. With the rise in the number of spurious journals and unethical practices in the field of research publications, it has become of utmost importance to investigate the quality of journals and articles published in it. Impact factor is one of the journal metrics that has become of utmost importance for institutions and authors across the country, also influenced by the fact that UGC has started giving importance to it. Rising awareness of impact factor of a journal and the probability of its use in evaluation have affected researchers’ publication behavior and intentions; this has become one of the primary criteria while choosing a jour
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Review of an article from The Indexer (2009)

  Gender and Authorship in The Indexer: An Article Lost in Cycle of Discourse The article ‘Gender and Authorship in The Indexer: 1958-2007’ is an article which was published in the 4th issue of the 27th volume in ‘The Indexer: The International Journal of Indexing’ in December, 2009. The author of this article is Catherine Sassen, the librarian of University of North Texas. This article primarily focuses on gender distribution and its change in authorship and indexing, through analysis of five decades of indexing in the very same journal it was published. At the very outset of the article the author describes the purpose of the article - exploring the “sociological characteristics of the literature of a discipline” (Sassen, 2009, p. 164) as reflected in the indexing of the journal in the aforementioned time-span. The article analyses the collected data using the lens of ‘indexing depending on the authority of indexer’. The article throughout tries to establish the gender dispar
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