scholarly journals Academic Journals in the Digital Age: An Editor’s Perspective

2016 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 112-117 ◽  
Author(s):  
Helen Rogers
2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 1115-1143
Author(s):  
Milan Frederik Klus ◽  
Alexander Dilger

AbstractSince the early 1990s, when digitalisation began to open new opportunities for disseminating information, many academic journals started to introduce online services. However, while some studies suggest that online availability and free access to journal articles are positively connected to the number of citations an article receives, little is known about whether being an early adopter of digital services provides journals with a (long-term) competitive advantage in times of digital change. We use data from SSCI-listed management journals to examine which journals pioneered the introduction of digital services, to what extent first-mover advantages can be identified, and which journal characteristics are associated with citation-based performance indicators. Our results show that lower ranked journals were the first to introduce digital services and were beneficiaries of the digital age. Furthermore, we find a negative correlation between general submission fees and journal performance and that the top-performing journals of our sample are those of non-commercial publishers. Our analysis of the relationship between journal performance and the provision of open access contradicts previous studies, as we find no positive correlations between performance and open access on the journal level.


2017 ◽  
pp. 205
Author(s):  
Luis Rodríguez Yunta

<p>Se analiza la transformación operada con el desarrollo de Internet en el ecosistema formado por las revistas académicas y las bases de datos bibliográficas, con especial atención a la situación de las publicaciones españolas de Historia. Las bases de datos, en especial los índices de citas, permiten categorizar las revistas, pero actualmente los indicadores extraídos de la citación son inadecuados para valorar muchos ámbitos de Ciencias Humanas y Sociales. Se analiza en detalle la situación del área de Historia, sus características bibliométricas y la utilidad de las bases de datos bibliográficas para extraer indicadores alternativos y estadísticas para el análisis<br />historiográfico, en el marco del desarrollo de las Humanidades digitales.</p><p><strong>Abstract</strong></p><p>This article analyzes the transformation operated with the development of Internet in the ecosystem of academic journals and bibliographic databases, with particular attention to the situation of Spanish publications about History. Databases, especially citation indexes allow categorize journals, but currently<br />citation indicators are inadequate to assess many areas of human and social sciences. The paper analyzes in depth the situation in the field of History, its bibliometric characteristics and usefulness of bibliographic databases to extract alternative<br />indicators and statistics for the historiographical analysis in the context of the development of digital humanities.</p>


2017 ◽  
Vol 110 (3) ◽  
pp. 1333-1350 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xin Gu ◽  
Karen Blackmore

Author(s):  
Mark J McCabe ◽  
Christopher M. Snyder

Abstract Digital-age technologies promise to revolutionize the market for academic journals as they have other media. We model journals as intermediaries linking authors with readers in a two-sided market. We use the model to study the division of fees between authors and readers under various market structures, ranging from monopoly to free entry. The results help explain why print journals traditionally obtained most of their revenue from subscription fees. The results raise the possibility that digitization may lead to a proliferation of online journals targeting various author types. The paper contributes to the literature on two-sided markets in its analysis of free-entry equilibrium and modeling of product-quality certification.


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