scholarly journals Prestige and Gatekeeping in Postgraduate Journals: The Case of Postgraduate English

Interscript ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alistair James Brown ◽  
Anna-Rose Shack ◽  
Douglass Virdee
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Open Access Publishing ◽  
English Studies ◽  
High Quality ◽  
High Quality Research ◽  
Quality Research ◽  
Labour Costs ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Prestige

Relatively little has beensaid about the opportunities and challenges of digital, open access publishing asit pertains to postgraduate-led journals catering to postgraduate researchers.This paper draws on the authors’ experiences with Postgraduate English,one of the longest-running, born-digital journals for postgraduate researchersin English studies. It makes the case for the benefit of such publicationswithin the prestige economy and describes the ways in which quality can beassured, challenging those who might see postgraduate publications as furtherdiluting the pool of high-quality research. At the same time, the paper raisescritical questions about who really wins in postgraduate publishing. While thosewho publish and edit can benefit from the prestige indication of theseactivities, ultimately host institutions may gain more from the relationship viathe hidden labour costs behind such activity.

scholarly journals Geotechnics: Welcome to A New Open Access Journal for A Growing Multidisciplinary Community

Geotechnics ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 216-218
Author(s):  
Brendan C. O’Kelly ◽  
Pinnaduwa H. S. W. Kulatilake ◽  
George E. Mylonakis
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Open Access Journal ◽  
Scholarly Journal ◽  
Environmental Engineering ◽  
High Quality ◽  
High Quality Research ◽  
Rock Engineering ◽  
Quality Research

On behalf of the editorial board and MDPI Publishing, may we extend a very warm welcome to this first editorial of Geotechnics—a new and international, open access, scholarly journal aimed at showcasing and nurturing high-quality research and developmental activities in soil and rock engineering and geo-environmental engineering, worldwide [...]

scholarly journals Negating the Gender Citation Advantage in Political Science

2017 ◽  
Vol 50 (02) ◽  
pp. 448-455 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amy L. Atchison
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Gender Bias ◽  
Academic Publishing ◽  
High Quality ◽  
High Quality Research ◽  
Quality Research ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Research Areas ◽  
Considerable Research ◽  
Citation Advantage

ABSTRACTOpen-access (OA) advocates have long promoted OA as an egalitarian alternative to traditional subscription-based academic publishing. The argument is simple: OA gives everyone access to high-quality research at no cost. In turn, this should benefit individual researchers by increasing the number of people reading and citing academic articles. As the OA movement gains traction in the academy, scholars are investing considerable research energy to determine whether there is an OA citation advantage—that is, does OA increase an article’s citation counts? Research indicates that it does. Scholars also explored patterns of gender bias in academic publishing and found that women are cited at lower rates in many disciplines. Indeed, in many disciplines, men enjoy a significant and positive gender citation effect (GCE) compared to their female colleagues. This article combines these research areas to determine whether the OA citation advantage varies by gender. Using Wilcoxon-Mann-Whitney (WMW) tests, the nonparametric analog to the independent samples T-test, I conclude that OA benefits male and female political scientists at similar rates. Thus, OA negates the gender citation advantage that typically accrues to male political scientists.

scholarly journals Publisher's Comment

2020 ◽  
Vol 44 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Gary Schnitz
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
High Impact ◽  
Cutting Edge ◽  
Professional Organizations ◽  
High Quality ◽  
High Quality Research ◽  
Quality Research

Welcome to the Journal of Biocommunication issue 44-1. The issue represents our first issue of 2020 and our eighth issue designed for our new mixed publishing format that offers our authors traditional publishing as well as open access options. Our Journal is dedicated to the dissemination of high-quality research, and we accept manuscripts, which are of interest to the broader bioscience community. We welcome authors reporting on their high-impact discoveries, cutting-edge research, and new imaging methodologies. Our professional organizations and the Journal are critical for generating open access content of scholarly, intellectual, and creative merit.  

Struggling with good intentions: Music education research in a “post” world

2021 ◽  
pp. 1321103X2110564
Author(s):  
Roger Mantie
Keyword(s):  
Education Research ◽  
Music Education ◽  
Symbolic Violence ◽  
High Quality ◽  
High Quality Research ◽  
Quality Research ◽  
Equity Research ◽  
Personal Challenges ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Relationship

In this Perspectives article, the author grapples with the personal challenges of attempting to do ethical and high-quality research in the post world of the maturing 21st century. Among the challenges addressed are matters of purported relevance of research, equity research conducted by nonmembers of equity-seeking groups, the impact of rankings and metrics, peer review, and the relationship between good intentions and symbolic violence.

scholarly journals Will Open Access Get Me Cited? An Analysis of the Efficacy of Open Access Publishing in Political Science

2014 ◽  
Vol 48 (01) ◽  
pp. 129-137 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amy Atchison ◽  
Jonathan Bull
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Political Science ◽  
Open Access Publishing ◽  
Journal Articles ◽  
High Quality ◽  
High Quality Research ◽  
Digital Revolution ◽  
The Social ◽  
Primary Hypothesis ◽  
Citation Advantage

ABSTRACTThe digital revolution has made it easier for political scientists to share and access high-quality research online. However, many articles are stored in proprietary databases that some institutions cannot afford. High-quality, peer-reviewed, top-tier journal articles that have been made open access (OA) (i.e., freely available online) theoretically should be accessed and cited more easily than articles of similar quality that are available only to paying customers. Research into the efficacy of OA publishing thus far has focused mainly on the natural sciences, and the results have been mixed. Because OA has not been as widely adopted in the social sciences, disciplines such as political science have received little attention in the OA research. In this article, we seek to determine the efficacy of OA in political science. Our primary hypothesis is that OA articles will be cited at higher rates than articles that are toll access (TA), which means available only to paying customers. We test this hypothesis by analyzing the mean citation rates of OA and TA articles from eight top-ranked political science journals. We find that OA publication results in a clear citation advantage in political science publishing.

τeκτoniκa, a journal for an open future

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohamed Gouiza ◽  
David Fernández Blanco ◽  
Clare Bond ◽  
Dave McCarthy ◽  
Amicia Lee ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Structural Geology ◽  
Open Access ◽  
Scholarly Work ◽  
Open Future ◽  
High Quality ◽  
High Quality Research ◽  
Quality Research ◽  
Grass Roots ◽  
Internet Publishing ◽  
Access To Knowledge

<p>τeκτoniκa is an up-coming community-led diamond open access (DOA) journal, which aims to publish high-quality research in structural geology and tectonics. It is a grass-roots community-driven initiative that relies on the involvement of Earth Scientists from around the globe; that together represent the wide and diverse spectrum of the structural geology and tectonics community. </p><p>Beyond the obvious objective of publishing novel research on structural geology and tectonics, it is intended to offer an alternative to traditional publishing models, which hide scholarly work behind exclusive and expensive paywalls. τeκτoniκa is a new addition to the growing set of DOA journals that have appeared in recent years. Along with preprint platforms, data and software repositories, it is part of an expanding movement within academia focused on breaking the barriers inherited from the pre-internet publishing era, to ensure free and open access to knowledge.</p><p>This contribution aims to showcase the value of this ambitious project as well as our vision for how DOA journals in general (and Tektonika in particular) might shape the future of geoscience publishing.</p>

scholarly journals Surgery and the kings of medical science

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ihsan Ekin Demir ◽  
Güralp O. Ceyhan ◽  
Helmut Friess
Keyword(s):  
Medical Science ◽  
Publication Activity ◽  
Impact Factors ◽  
The Political ◽  
Academic Productivity ◽  
High Quality ◽  
High Quality Research ◽  
Quality Research

Abstract Background Surgeons are frequently compared in terms of their publication activity to members of other disciplines who publish in journals with naturally higher impact factors. The time intensity of daily clinical duties in surgery is yet not comparable to that of these competitor disciplines. Purpose Here, we aimed to critically comment on ways for improving the academic productivity of university surgerons. Conclusions To ensure high-quality science in surgery, it is imperative that surgeons actively ask for and generate the time for high-quality research. This necessitates coordinated and combined efforts of leading university surgeons at the political level and effective presentation of the magnificent studies performed by young and talented university surgeons.

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