DISCUSSION of 'Editorial-Quantifying the impact of hydrological studies' $$$$ Apocrypha, or 'things that are hidden'-personal experience with 'hidden' impacts over the past 50 years

摘要

The only matter of some substance where 1 differ from the 2007 Editorial by Koutsoyiannis & Kundzewicz (henceforth K&K) is their assessment of the increase of the rejection rate for submitted papers. If this increase has been the result of the "spectacular improvement" in HSJ indices, which in turn has attracted more submissions, then I do not regard it as "an unfortunate consequence" but as a useful supplementary index of HSJ's improved quality; needless to say, its value should be regarded with caution, since, even in this age of severe information pollution, it is not necessarily true that the best journal would be one with a 100% rejection rate, notwithstanding the often intruding temptation to believe so.