Index Copernicus

The Index Copernicus aimed to offer an alternative to the English language dominance of publication indexing systems. The enterprise was co-financed by the European Regional Development Fund under the name: "Electronic Publishing House of Scientific Journals system of Index Copernicus Ltd."{{cn|date=July 2015}}

IC's journal ranking system was criticized in 2013 by Jeffrey Beall because of the alleged high proportion of predatory journals included in it and its suspect evaluation methodology; he characterized the resulting "IC Value" as "a pretty worthless measure".{{cite web|url=http://scholarlyoa.com/2013/11/21/index-copernicus-has-no-value/ |title=Index Copernicus Has No Value |work=Scholarly Open Access |author-link=Jeffrey Beall |last=Beall |first=Jeffrey |date=2013-11-21 |access-date=2014-06-23 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140403010813/http://scholarlyoa.com/2013/11/21/index-copernicus-has-no-value/ |archive-date=2014-04-03 }} Index Copernicus remains on the list of misleading metrics.{{Cite web|url=https://beallslist.net/misleading-metrics/|title=Misleading Metrics – Beall's List}}

Index Copernicus has been repeatedly accused of unethical practices.{{cite web|title=Index Copernicus – sędzia we własnej sprawie {{!}} Warsztat badacza |first=Emanuel |last=Kulczycki|url=http://ekulczycki.pl/warsztat_badacza/index-copernicus-sedzia-we-wlasnej-sprawie/|website=ekulczycki.pl|access-date=2020-05-15}}{{cite web|title=Fraudulent and false metric indexes. A scam for publishers and authors|url=https://schoolofauthors.wordpress.com/2016/11/17/fraudulent-and-false-metric-indexes-a-scam-for-publishers-and-authors/|last=Repiso|first=Rafael|agency=Comunicar. School of Authors|date=2016-11-17|access-date=2020-05-15|language=en|archive-date=2019-07-20|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190720060149/https://schoolofauthors.wordpress.com/2016/11/17/fraudulent-and-false-metric-indexes-a-scam-for-publishers-and-authors/|url-status=dead}}

At the time of partnership{{Cite web|url=https://www.indexcopernicus.com/index.php/en/badania-2/funduszeue-2|title=EU Funds|website=www.indexcopernicus.com}} between Index Copernicus and the Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education in the project of evaluating Polish universities, Index Copernicus was offering a paid option to speed up the process of indexing journals which in turn was beneficial in the official process of university evaluation that it was overseeing at the same time.

Some university libraries advise to "avoid journals displaying metrics from Index Copernicus".{{cite web|title=LIBRARY INSIDER: Is this journal predatory? Check indexing and metrics|url=https://www.utimes.pitt.edu/news/library-insider-journal|agency=utimes|access-date=2020-05-15}}{{Cite web|url=https://libguides.rockhurst.edu/c.php?g=583331&p=4028564|title=LibGuides: Scholarly Communication Guide: Predatory Publishing|first=M. L. S.|last=Robert Powers|website=libguides.rockhurst.edu}}{{cite web|title=Research Guides: How to Avoid Predatory Publishers and Conferences: Predatory Publishers Checklist|url=https://guides.library.queensu.ca/deceptive-pubs-conf/checklist|first=Rosarie |last=Coughlan|website=guides.library.queensu.ca|access-date=2020-05-15|language=en}} Index Copernicus has also become the object of study

{{cite journal|title=Alternative journal impact factors in open access publishing|journal=Learned Publishing|volume=31|date=2018|issue=4|pages=403–411|language=en|issn=1741-4857|doi=10.1002/leap.1200|last1=Xia|first1=Jingfeng|last2=Smith|first2=Megan P.|doi-access=free}}{{cite journal|title=The story of fake impact factor companies and how we detected them|journal=Electronic Physician|volume=7|date=2015-06-05|issue=2|issn=2008-5842|doi=10.14661/2015.1069-1072|pmid=26120416|pmc=4477767|last1=Jalalian|first1=Mehrdad|pages=1069–72}}{{cite journal|title=Valuable research in fake journals and self-boasting with fake metrics|last1=Samul |first1=Asir John |last2=Aranha |first2=Vevita Priya|journal=Journal of Pediatric Neurosciences|volume=13|date=2018-10-01|issue = 4|pages = 517–518|language=en|doi=10.4103/JPN.JPN_66_18|pmid = 30937105|pmc = 6413586 |doi-access=free }} in context of scientific predatory practices. One researcher that stings predatory publishers by publishing fictitious papers (accepted without review by the publishers) says that journals that show the Index Copernicus on their web site are most likely predatory. {{Cite web|url=https://www.the-scientist.com/critic-at-large/opinion-using-pokmon-to-detect-scientific-misinformation-68098|title=Opinion: Using Pokémon to Detect Scientific Misinformation|work=The Scientist Magazine® }}

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