I’ve been sitting on for about a week as I tried to find out more about the Reference Citation Analysis database -and the jury is still out on whether this is a legit organization. I tried to set-up a profile as these three upcoming messages suggest (first one is the one below), but within 12 hours I received this notice under the subject line “RCA ID: 00001812 Reference Citation Analysis notice of rejection of account registration,” which read:
Your credentials for RCA membership have completed careful evaluation by the RCA Editorial Office. However, after several communications via email, your personal information and/or imported articles still do not meet the requirements. I regret to inform you that, at this time, your RCA account registration has been denied. Your RCA ID and personal RCA site will no longer be accessible.
The reasons for denial generally include (1) your registered personal information, including the institution, research keywords, and/or biography not meeting the requirements of RCA and/or not having been updated accordingly on time; (2) your personal photo not having been uploaded and/or not meeting the requirements of RCA; (3) your own articles not having been imported into RCA on time; (4) the imported articles having been wrongly edited and/or not meeting the requirements of RCA; and/or (5) inappropriate articles (by other scholars) having been imported to your RCA registration, followed by a refusal to delete them upon request by RCA Editorial Office.
Anyway, the first of three of these notices from an open scholarship network that may or may not be worth the professional effort.
Dear Dr. Barbour,
We are very pleased to inform you that your high-quality article published in <The Shift to Distance Learning: Tracing the Roots of 100+ Years of Practice and Opportunity.> has been officially included in the Reference Citation Analysis (RCA) database.
RCA is committed to building the world’s only open access and transparent academic science sharing platform focusing on citation analysis. RCAcan find and obtain the latest research results published in biomedical science journals through the ranking of Impact Index Per Article, which will lead researchers towards more substantive and sensible research directions. You are welcome to visit the official website of RCA: https://www.referencecitationanalysis.com/.
If you have any questions about the bibliographic information of your article, or in your subsequent use of the RCA, please contact the RCAEditorial Office via email: rca@baishideng.com.
Other Resources
Scholar Registration, through which your academic influence, based upon your own articles, will be assessed fairly and objectively in RCA. Example: https://referencecitationanalysis.com/00000002.
Find an Article: https://referencecitationanalysis.com/
Find a Category: https://referencecitationanalysis.com/Categories
Find a Journal: https://referencecitationanalysis.com/SearchJournal
Find a Scholar: https://referencecitationanalysis.com/searchscholar
Find an Academic Assistant: https://referencecitationanalysis.com/searchacademicassistant
Find an Article PDF: https://referencecitationanalysis.com/FindArticlePDF
Today’s Articles: https://referencecitationanalysis.com/TodayArticles
Baishideng Journals: https://www.wjgnet.com/bpg/journals.htm
Best regards from California,
Lian-Sheng Ma, Founder and CEO
Baishideng Publishing Group Inc
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