波兰杂志针对被SCI踢出的申辩书.pdfVIP

Our comments to Thomson Reuters decision and to JCR and SCI indexing Przeglad Elektrotechniczny is one of the oldest and largest European journal devoted to electrical engineering – we exist since 1919 and last year we published more than 2000 scientific papers a year. Our journal was established as official representation of Association of Polish Electricians. But later we obtained more and more foreign papers mainly from other countries of our part of the Europa - Russia, Ukraine, Belorussia, Czech republic, Slovakia and Slovenia, Montenegro, Serbia and Croatia, Bulgaria, Romania or Hungary. We expanded to representation of the large part of Europa – Central and Ost Europa. Probably this importance for European scientific community was the main reason that we have been accepted to JCR database. After acceptation to JCR in 2008 the pressure of the authors increased spectacularly. We published about 50% papers of Polish authors andt number of foreign papers increased every years. After acceptation to JCR started avalanche of papers also from Asian countries - Iran, Pakistan, Malaysia, Thailand and especially China. We received 10 -20 China papers every day (!). The reason was obvious. These countries have not sufficient representation on JCR (related to number of author and scientific potential of the country). And although we received papers with author’s notes as “we are proud to send paper to so prestigious and excellent journal” the truth was more banal – for authors from these countries Przegląd Elektrotechniczny was an only gate to publish in journal that is indexed by SCI. Thomson Reuters dropped Przegląd Elektrotechniczny from JCR with the end of 2012. This decision arrived suddenly without any earlier warnings. It was surprise for us because our parameters slowly incre