Monday, 28 November 2011

Scientific Research

Scientific Research http://www.scirp.org/Index.aspx, an open access journal boasts a more than 150  journals in science, technology & medicine

The catch you can publish anything by paying the right price
The company apparently based in California, belongs to a Chinese publishing mafia

Prof. Dr. Henner Hollert

Prof. Dr. Henner Hollert is in the editorial board of the following 3 journals
  1. Environmental Science and Pollution Research
  2. Journal of Soils and Sediments
  3. Umweltwissenschaften und Schadstoff-Forschung (now called Environmental Sciences Europe)
And Henner Toni likes to publish in these 3 journals and cite himself and the journals he edited very much.
From 130 publications, he has published 39 papers in Umweltwissenschaften Und Schadstoff Forschung, 28 papers in Environmental Science and Pollution Research and 25 in Journal of Soils and Sediments.

He single handedly has been responsible to bring Environmental Science and Pollution Research (ESPR) and  Journal of Soils and Sediments (JSS) to high impact factors.
For example in 2007, he had cited 70 times Environmental Science and Pollution Research and 30 times Journal of Soils and Sediments.
The Environmental Science and Pollution Research journal has 50% self citation and Journal of Soils and Sediments has 36% self citation in the impact factor calculation!
Now Henner is bringing Environmental Sciences Europe to all time high self citation so can get a high impact factor.


He's proud of it and write about it as well
The first impact factor : In June 2008, Journal Citation Reports (JCR) published an impact factor of 4.373 for J Soils Sediments (JSS) Hollert, H., Heinrich, A.B., Seiler, T.-B. 2008 Journal of Soils and Sediments 8 (4), pp. 203-205

Toni likes to write editorials, notably he has written 32 editorials for the 3 journals.
He also likes to write Accolades, the following accolades appear 4 times in all different 4 journals, with the same content but varying authors
  • Accolades for Almut Beate Heinrich, our managing-editor Hollert, H., Young, A.L., Klöpffer, W., Förstner, U., Salomons, W., Xu, Z. 2008 Umweltwissenschaften und Schadstoff-Forschung 20 (3), pp. 157-158
  • Accolades for Almut Beate Heinrich, our Managing-Editor Young, A.L., Klöpffer, W., Hollert, H., Förstner, U., Salomons, W., Xu, Z. 2008 Environmental Science and Pollution Research 15 (4), pp. 291-292
  • Accolades for Almut Beate Heinrich, our managing-editor Förstner, U., Salomons, W., Xu, Z., Young, A.L., Klöpffer, W., Hollert, H. 2008 Journal of Soils and Sediments 8 (3), pp. 149-150
  • Accolades for Almut Beate Heinrich, our Managing-Editor Klöpffer, W., Young, A.L., Hollert, H., Förstner, U., Salomons, W., Xu, Z. 2008 International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment 13 (4), pp. 287-288

From Web of knowledge we know that Henner has a 50% self citation rate
Sum of the Times Cited  : 1329
Sum of Times Cited without self-citations : 703
Sum of self citations: 676 (47%)

Accolade to Toni Hollert, our environmental science polluter!