NAAS HAS RELEASED 2012 NAAS FACTORS TO BE EFFECTIVE FROM JANUARY 1, 2013
http://naasindia.org/rating.html
Rating of Scientific Journals
The National Academy of Agricultural Sciences is a think tank that provides a forum to scientists to present their views on critical issues relating to agricultural research, education and extension. The Academy encourages cutting edge research in different fields of agriculture and accords recognition to scientists by electing them as Fellows, giving them Awards and admitting young scientists to Associateships.
The election of Fellows involves a rigorous assessment of research achievements of the nominees for which emphasis is given to their scientific publications. Therefore, a need was felt in the Academy for critically assessing the published work of the nominees for the Fellowship/Associateship and for developing a transparent and quantifiable mechanism that avoids arbitrariness in assessment. Accordingly, the Academy initiated a process of rating of scientific research journals with the primary objective to bring uniformity in the evaluation of publications by the nominees for Fellowship/ Associateship by different Sectional Committees.
For determining NAAS rating to research journals, the Academy has classified them into the following two categories:-
Category I: Those journals where Thompson Reuters Impact Factor is available, the marks are assigned between 6.0 and 10.0 on the basis of their standing in the Thomson Reuters list of the Impact Factors.
Category II: Those journals where Thompson Reuters Impact Factor is not available, the marks are assigned on the basis of information provided by the Publishers in a proforma prescribed by the Academy.
(sOURCE : NAAS WEBSITE
http://naasindia.org/rating.html)
".....and thus this NAAS Ranking started to kill scholarly spirit among researchers. This list contains many paid but non-open access journals and provides a rank of 03 or above to Journals having Thompson Reuters Impact factor of ZERO (0) and provides rank of 5 to journals having a Thompson Reuters Impact factor of 6 and above. It would be better if members of this academy commit suicide for killing agricultural and allied research in India...."
ReplyDeleteNAAS rating has its flaws. The new one evaluates on impact factor only. Most faulty is our system which modifies criterias to select their candidates and not the most suitable ones. The so called higher ranked persons are killing the scientific spirit and their ego is destroying Indian Science.
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