Does InformaWorld believe it's a good strategy to change a journals
title on the fly, without any announcement on the homepage, and
with all the citation confusion generated by that?
Example:
Medical Informatics and the Internet in Medicine, now apparently
Informatics for Health and Social Care
If I download articles from your website in pdf format, it automatically
gets appended a cover page at the top that says from where it was
downloaded and provides a full citation to be used by authors.
However, if I look at the actual article, it still carries the old title on
every page. The HTML Version of course carries only the new title.
Therefore people will start to cite these articles under completely
different journal names, depending on whether they cite from the
print version or the online version.
This will certainly their ISI impact factor (if they have one), also
it might rightly earn them at least a special mention among the
ALCTS worst serials title change of the year awards.
Best regards and happy Christmas,
Bernd-Christoph Kaemper, Stuttgart University Library
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