scholarly journals The impact of COVID-19 on scientific publishing

2020 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. 37-43
Author(s):  
Annarita Barbaro ◽  
Federica Napolitani Cheyne ◽  
Maria Cristina Barbaro
Keyword(s):  
Scholarly Publishing ◽  
Scientific Publishing ◽  
Academic Journals ◽  
Publishing Community ◽  
The Impact

This article proposes an analysis on the impact that COVID-19 pandemic is having on the process of scientific publishing in academic journals. It will specifically describe the response of the scholarly publishing community to meet the pressing demand from authors and researchers wishing to disseminate, as rapidly as possible, information on the virus. Its aim is to provide an overview for the community of librarians and information specialists about publishing in the COVID-19 era.

Here there Be Tygers: Profit, Non-profit, and Loss in the Age of Disintermediation

1997 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Jensen
Keyword(s):  
Eastern Europe ◽  
Social Institutions ◽  
Scholarly Publishing ◽  
The Political ◽  
Quality Information ◽  
High Quality ◽  
Non Profit ◽  
High Quality Information ◽  
Europe De L’Est ◽  
The Impact

Abstract: Scholarly publishing and access to high-quality information may in fact be threatened, rather than improved, by the revolution in communications, particularly in a fully commercial Internet. The effects of the political revolution in Eastern Europe on scholarship and quality publishing are used as a touchstone of the dangers that occur when naïve revolutionaries make swift changes without fully recognizing the impact upon delicately balanced social institutions such as non-profit organizations. Résumé: La révolution en communications, particulièrement en ce qui regarde un Internet commercialisé, plutôt que d'améliorer l'édition savante et l'accès à de l'information de haute qualité, pourrait en fait poser une menace pour ceux-ci. Cet article examine comment la révolution politique en Europe de l'Est a influé sur la recherche et l'édition de qualité. Il utilise cet exemple pour examiner les dangers que peuvent courir certains révolutionnaires naïfs quand ils instaurent des changements rapides san songer à leur impact sur des institutions sociales à équilibre délicat comme les organisations à but non lucratif.

scholarly journals Writing for Academic Journals in the Digital Era

RELC Journal ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 51 (1) ◽  
pp. 147-157 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brian Paltridge
Keyword(s):  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Academic Work ◽  
Journal Articles ◽  
Plagiarism Detection ◽  
Academic Journals ◽  
Online Publishing ◽  
Management Tools ◽  
Open Access Journals ◽  
Predatory Publishers ◽  
The Impact

The use of digital technologies has transformed the processes of writing for academic journals and the dissemination and preservation of academic work. It has also made the measurement of the impact of publications in academic journals easier and this information more accessible to authors. In this article I discuss some of the ways in which digital technologies have changed writing for academic journals as well as how digital technologies are being used in the submission and review of journal articles. This includes ways in which academic work can be stored and shared, the use of citation management tools, and the sharing of research materials once an article has been accepted for publication. I also give an overview of how digital technologies are being used in the review of journal articles including the use of plagiarism detection software. Issues in online publishing are outlined as is the development of open-access journals and the rise of predatory publishers. Social media and journal publishing and the use of multimodality in research article writing are also discussed.

The Business of Scholarly Publishing

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Albert N. Greco
Keyword(s):  
The United States ◽  
Copyright Law ◽  
Scholarly Publishing ◽  
Product Price ◽  
Institutional Repositories ◽  
Scholarly Publications ◽  
Turbulent Times ◽  
The Us ◽  
Impact Of Technology ◽  
The Impact

This is a detailed analysis of the business of the scholarly publishing of books, journals, preprints, and various scholarly publications in institutional repositories in the United States. Drawing on an extensive review of the literature and statistical sources, the book examines the changing environment of scholarly publishing and the product, price, placement, promotion, and costs (including some profit and loss statements) of scholarly books and journals. Special attention is paid to the history and development of scholarly books and journals; intellectual property issues, including the development of the US copyright law and infringement issues of Sci-Hub; an author’s contract; and the impact of technology (including open access) on books and journals. The book also discusses how scholarly publishers are trying to manage in what are turbulent times. The book contains extensive notes, book and journal statistical tables, and figures.

Research on impact evaluation of academic journals from multidimensional perspective

2019 ◽  
Vol 38 (2) ◽  
pp. 458-478
Author(s):  
Rongying Zhao ◽  
Xu Wang
Keyword(s):  
Impact Evaluation ◽  
Indicator System ◽  
Three Dimensions ◽  
Societal Impact ◽  
Strong Positive Correlation ◽  
Academic Journals ◽  
Academic Impact ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Positive Correlations ◽  
The Impact

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to introduce altmetric indicators and combine with traditional citation indicators to comprehensively evaluate the impact of academic journals from the perspective of multidimensional and multi-indicator fusion. Design/methodology/approach The authors take international multidisciplinary journals as an example, combining 14 traditional citation indicators of academic journals and introducing 14 altmetric indicators to build a comprehensive evaluation model of the impact of academic journals (academic impact and societal impact). At the same time, the authors systematically construct a journal evaluation indicator system from three dimensions. Then, the indicators data of three dimensions are evaluated by normalized processing, correlation analysis, reliability and validity analysis, PCA and factor analysis. Findings Two-dimensional and three-dimensional analyses can exactly provide some useful information for academic journals’ location in the respective coordinate systems. There are strong positive correlations among the measured indicators in the three dimensions, and each indicator has a significant consistency between whole and internal. The correlation coefficient between FD1 and FD2 is 0.888 with a strong positive correlation. It shows that the traditional citation indicators provided by WoS and Scopus database are highly consistent, and they are comparable and alternative in evaluating the academic impact of journals. The correlation coefficients of FD1, FD2 with FD3 are 0.831 and 0.798. There are strong positive correlations among them, which indicate that the evaluation of journals’ societal impact based on altmetrics indicator can be considered as a potential supplement to academic impact evaluation based on citation and to reflect the multidimensional nature of journals impact in an immediate way. Originality/value Multidimensional and multi-indicator perspective evaluation can provide references for the selection of impact evaluation indicators and model optimization of academic journals, and also provide new ideas for improving the status of the impact evaluation of academic journals.

scholarly journals Assessment of Factors Causing Bias in Marketing- Related Publications

Publications ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 45
Author(s):  
Mangirdas Morkunas ◽  
Elzė Rudienė ◽  
Lukas Giriūnas ◽  
Laura Daučiūnienė
Keyword(s):  
Analytic Hierarchy Process ◽  
Scientific Publishing ◽  
Exclusion Criteria ◽  
Analytic Hierarchy ◽  
Expert Survey ◽  
The Analytic Hierarchy Process ◽  
Publishing Community ◽  
Analytic Hierarchy Process Method ◽  
Hierarchy Process ◽  
Process Method

The present paper aims at revealing and ranking the factors that most frequently cause bias in marketing-related publications. In order to rank the factors causing bias, the authors employed the Analytic Hierarchy Process method with three different scales representing all scale groups. The data for the study were obtained through expert survey, which involved nine experts both from the academia and scientific publishing community. The findings of the study confirm that factors that most frequently cause bias in marketing related publications are sampling and sample frame errors, failure to specify the inclusion and exclusion criteria for researched subjects and non-responsiveness.

Research on the impact evaluation of academic journals based on altmetrics and citation indicators

2019 ◽  
Vol 56 (1) ◽  
pp. 336-345 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rongying Zhao ◽  
Xu Wang ◽  
Zhuozhu Liu ◽  
Yongkang Qi ◽  
Zhaoyang Zhang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Impact Evaluation ◽  
Academic Journals ◽  
The Impact

The impact of the open access movement on medical based scholarly publishing in Nigeria

First Monday ◽  
2007 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alasia Datonye Dennis
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Developing World ◽  
Scholarly Publishing ◽  
Global Distribution ◽  
Scholarly Research ◽  
Medical Journals ◽  
Current State ◽  
Scholarly Publications ◽  
The Impact

The open access movement and its initiatives -- which advocate a shift from predominant print-based publication to electronic and Internet sources -- is expected to improve the global distribution of scholarly research and impact positively on the current state of scholarly publications in the developing world. This review examines the current state of medical journals in Nigeria and assesses the impact of the open access movement and its initiatives on medical scholarly publishing in Nigeria. The resulting appraisal shows that open access initiatives have impacted positively on medical scholarly publishing in Nigeria, with the African Journals Online and the African Index Medicus projects being the most significant influences. There are enormous prospects for further developing medical scholarly publishing in Nigeria using open access initiatives; these opportunities should be exploited and developed.

scholarly journals The Impact of Social Enterprises: A Bibliometric Analysis From 1991 to 2020

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 421
Author(s):  
Faraudello Alessandra ◽  
Barreca Manuela ◽  
Iannaci Daniel ◽  
Lanzara Federica
Keyword(s):  
Bibliometric Analysis ◽  
Social Impact ◽  
Social Innovation ◽  
Local Development ◽  
Social Enterprises ◽  
Academic Journals ◽  
Bibliometric Method ◽  
Editorial Material ◽  
And Performance ◽  
The Impact

The aim of this work is to provide, through a bibliometric analysis of the last 30 years of thematic literature, an overview on the contribution of social enterprises to the achievement of global goals.A bibliometric method has been used to analyze the characteristics, citation patterns and content of 3318 documents published in international academic journals, books review and chapters, editorial material and proceedings papers.Considering our findings, the bibliometric analysis has shown that there are journals that have had a greater production on the topic with an impact on research. Thanks to the work of the most impactful authors, it emerges that the case study is the most used method to demonstrate the centrality of social enterprises in social innovation. The analysis also shows that the centrality of the themes is linked to innovation, impact, management and performance, demonstrating the assumption that the driver of innovation in terms of social impact is given by these types of companies. The research also shows the keyword evolution through the years.Through the coding activity, it has also been possible to demonstrate that by transposing the global sustainability objectives to the local that the more in-depth ones are addressed on the issues of sustainable economy and fair, responsible and sustainable innovation, while there is much shortcoming regarding the achievement of gender equality, sustainable water management but even more on the reduction of inequality between nations. The latter is probably conditioned by the more global target and therefore not easily approachable to social enterprises.Research limitations/implications – The study shows a limitation, related to the adoption of the bibliometric method. However, it considers books review, chapters, papers published in international and academic journals, editorial materials, reviews and proceedings papers.Originality/value – This research shows that the interest on SDG and social enterprises has grown continuously in the last 30 years, especially in the last 5. The literature puts social enterprises at the center of social innovation by focusing on performance and management issues. Therefore, with the intention of mapping the studies that have been done in this regard, the study analyzed how research on local development coherence for global development has been addressed.

scholarly journals Mapping the Current Research Agenda on Scholarly Publishing: Scopus-Indexed Reviews

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 4-10
Author(s):  
Elena Tikhonova ◽  
Lilia Raitskaya
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Publishing Research ◽  
Open Science ◽  
Scholarly Publishing ◽  
Science System ◽  
Peer Reviews ◽  
Scholarly Publications ◽  
Editorial Review ◽  
The Impact

Nearly ten years ago, scholarly publishing came to the fore in research on scientific communication spurred by the evolving Open Science system, the reinvention of peer reviews, and new attitudes to scholarly publications in the ranking-based academic environment. Here, the JLE editors revisit the field of scholarly publishing and identify the most popular areas where potential JLE authors might have difficulty. In this editorial, Scopus-indexed reviews are analysed to map the prevailing trends. The editorial review shows that the trends include open access, peer review transparency, the changing role of libraries in scholarly publishing, CrossRef’s initiatives, outsourcing and skills lacking in publishing, the impact of universities’ prescribed lists for publishing research, open-access monographs, and the role of commercial publishers.

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