Jonas Ohlsson, editor-in-chief of Nordicom Review comments on the preliminary cite score:
We should always be cautious when discussing preliminary results, but if the presented figures remain, they do indicate that Nordicom Review is going in the right direction. Over the last four or five years, we actually see a trend where many different measures and indexing services tell the same story – Nordicom Review has become more relevant to the research community of our field.
Whereas this high cite score is obviously good news for Nordicom Review, metrics are only important to us as far as they are of importance to researchers and funding bodies. A development that I think is even more gratifying is the increased media attention towards research published by Nordicom. An obvious explanation for this is that Nordicom now has two communication officers dedicated to spreading the word about our publications.
In 2019, almost a third of the articles in Nordicom Review appeared in the news. One of the most visible articles from 2019 was “Framing Gender Justice: A comparative analysis of the media coverage of ‘metoo’ in Denmark and Sweden” by Tina Askanius and Jannie Møller Hartley. The article was discussed in 75 news articles and clips in Nordic media. Since the Scopus metrics are based on retrospective evaluations, we hope to see a continuous positive development based on Nordicom Review’s increased media visibility.
Quicker publication process
Another positive development for Nordicom Review is that the article processing time continues to decrease.
- The average time from submission to online publishing is now down to six months.
- The first decision of whether an article will be sent for peer review is usually taken within a week.
Nordicom Review has been indexed by Scopus since 2009. For more Scopus metrics about Nordicom Review, see below.
Karin Andén