Warning to environmental scientists! 🧪🦑🌎🐟 The journal STOTEN has been placed on hold by Clarivate, meaning it is under investigation and may lose its indexing (including impact factor). Consider publishing elsewhere. mjl.clarivate.com/search-results - ThreadSky

jutfelt.bsky.social • 130 days ago

Warning to environmental scientists! 🧪🦑🌎🐟

The journal STOTEN has been placed on hold by Clarivate, meaning it is under investigation and may lose its indexing (including impact factor). Consider publishing elsewhere.

https://mjl.clarivate.com/search-results

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dochfroehlich.bsky.social•127 days ago

What!? I didn’t know it was under investigation 😮‍💨 we just got reviews back on a paper through them…

seafloorscience.bsky.social•122 days ago

We just published there 🤦. Had no idea. Argh.

jutfelt.bsky.social•122 days ago

Yeah this hurts so many!

jutfelt.bsky.social•127 days ago

Oh no! They’ve had it coming for a while. Hopefully they can do a proper overhaul and save the journal but who knows

dochfroehlich.bsky.social•127 days ago

Regardless, questionable conduct and eminent delays looks like we pull it… well thank you for flagging it! I would have had no idea.

jutfelt.bsky.social•127 days ago

No worries! Probably wise before we know what will happen to the journal.

donaldmatthieu.bsky.social•123 days ago

Have you run across a link saying chemosphere's status was put on hold. If so can you please post it?

jutfelt.bsky.social•123 days ago

Yes it’s on hold. Check the link (in the OP) and search for the journal name.

https://mjl.clarivate.com/search-results

asanchez-tojar.bsky.social•113 days ago

Though we should have never submitted it in the first place, we just decided to withdraw a manuscript we submitted about a month ago based on this news and all the information I am now aware of regarding STOTEN. Thank you for sharing, Fredrik!

jutfelt.bsky.social•113 days ago

This was probably the right choice. Thanks!

spottingthespot.bsky.social•71 days ago

Curious what will happen to STOTEN now that Chemosphere is already delisted! Will be exciting times!

eloquentscience.com•113 days ago

We found STOTEN's handling of papers during pandemic questionable. Papers accepted same day they were received.

"Weather Effects on the Spread of COVID-19: Characteristics and Critical Analysis of the First and Second Years of Scientific Research", Bull Amer Meteor Soc.

https://doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-23-0071.1

eloquentscience.com•113 days ago

A thousand citations on Google Scholar, but with huge flaws with it. Accepted the same day it was received by STOTEN Chief Editor Damià Barceló.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0048969720319495

My response:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0048969722011706

jutfelt.bsky.social•113 days ago

Thanks for writing that response. It seems like very flawed science and same day acceptance is crazy.

whysharksmatter.bsky.social•129 days ago

👀

jutfelt.bsky.social•129 days ago

Yeah…

whysharksmatter.bsky.social•129 days ago

Is there a link for more info?

jutfelt.bsky.social•129 days ago

I can only find “on hold” at Clarivate. More discussion and info on the hell site:

https://x.com/spottingthespot/status/1847655942688506289?s=46&t=gVcdkUgY-2f3lIWq0PLZew

jutfelt.bsky.social•127 days ago

The editor in chief is the same person who accepted the “Jade amulet protects against Covid” paper.

https://retractionwatch.com/2020/10/29/amulets-may-prevent-covid-19-says-a-paper-in-elsevier-journal-they-dont/

sawsharkman.bsky.social•123 days ago

Time to replace said editor....

bmwildermuth.bsky.social•122 days ago

https://retractionwatch.com/2024/10/24/elife-latest-in-string-of-major-journals-put-on-hold-from-web-of-science/

Here in the second part you can find more STOTEN info

whysharksmatter.bsky.social•122 days ago

Thank you!

omorissette.bsky.social•127 days ago

I had a good experience there in 2020, this was before the "jade amulet" paper and all the other non-sense. Too bad to see a journal screw itself like this.

jutfelt.bsky.social•127 days ago

Yes I agree. I also had good experiences publishing there but I’ve seen the decline

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