之前就听鲁索说了，刚刚收到师弟的来信，ISSI官方证实了这个消息。

http://www.issi-society.org/media/1380/resignation_final.pdf

大致翻译了一下，是说，编委不满意Elsevier的行为和政策，尤其是Elsevier不支持open Citation的运动，令编委很光火，所以，他们集体退出编委会。

这个刊物会不会一落千丈？据我所知，领域里有大牛决定不再给此刊物投稿！

这个Open Citation运动发起人引用过我有关引文本质的文章。这个运动的影响可见一斑，我文章的影响力也可见一斑。

同时ISSI准备创办自己的刊物，刊物的名字是Quantitative Science Studies。

科学计量学领域应该有一场大动荡吧！不，应该是出版界会有些大动荡吧。

Thursday, January 10th, 2019

Dear Ms. Mesquita, Dear Ludo,
Based on the letter from Ms. Mesquita on October 9, 2018, we would like to inform you that there are insufficient grounds for us to continue our collaboration with Elsevier as members of the Editorial Board of Journal of Informetrics (JOI). We therefore offer our resignation as JOI editorial board members, effective immediately.

We are disappointed that ownership of JOI and the amount of Article Publishing Charges (APCs) of JOI are non-negotiable for Elsevier. Moreover, we deeply regret that Elsevier is not willing to participate in the Initiative for Open Citations (I4OC). This initiative has broad support in the field of scientometrics (http://issi-society.org/open-citations-letter/) and Elsevier is the only publisher in our field that has not joined the initiative. Because our position on ownership, open access, and open citations is fundamentally irreconcilable with the position of Elsevier, we consider it is no longer in the interest of our community to continue working together with Elsevier as members of the JOI editorial board.
We will honor those obligations we have assumed for manuscripts currently under consideration. We will not, however, assume any additional responsibilities for new submissions received.
Sincerely,
Vincent Larivière, Giovanni Abramo, Per Ahlgren, Judit Bar-Ilan, Johan Bollen, Lutz Bornmann, Kevin Boyack, Quentin Burrell, Ciriaco Andrea D’Angelo, Wolfgang Glänzel, Raf Guns, Stefanie Haustein, Loet Leydesdorff, Thierry Marchant, Stasa Milojević, Filippo Radicchi, Ismael Rafols, Ronald Rousseau, Jesper W. Schneider, Henry Small, Min Song, Cassidy Sugimoto, Mike Thelwall, Nees Jan van Eck, Anthony F.J. van Raan, Jevin West, Dietmar Wolfram, Paul Wouters, Erjia Yan