scholarly journals Branding Spin-Off Scholarly Journals: Transmuting Symbolic Capital into Economic Capital

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Khelfaoui ◽  
YVES GINGRAS
Keyword(s):  
Symbolic Capital ◽  
High Impact ◽  
Economic Capital ◽  
Brand Names ◽  
Impact Factors ◽  
Scientific Journals ◽  
Scholarly Journals ◽  
Prestigious Journal ◽  
Article Processing Charge ◽  
Routing Mechanism

In this article, we analyse a relatively recent commercial strategy used by large academic publishers to capitalize on the brand names of their most prestigious scientific journals. Using Pierre Bourdieu’s model of capital conversion, we explain how publishers transfer the symbolic capital of an already prestigious journal to derivative journals that share in the prestige of the original brand and transform it into new economic capital. As shown by their high impact factors, these newly created journals benefit from the name recognition and reputation of the originals after which they are named. Plus, through a manuscript routing mechanism, the publishers recycle some of the submissions rejected by their highly selective flagship journal by redirecting those manuscripts, along with their re?views, to derivative journals or to one of the lower-impact journals on their list, which may require an article processing charge for publication.

scholarly journals Branding Scholarly Journals: Transmuting Symbolic Capital into Economic Capital

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Khelfaoui ◽  
YVES GINGRAS
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Symbolic Capital ◽  
High Impact ◽  
Economic Capital ◽  
Impact Factors ◽  
Scientific Journals ◽  
Scholarly Journals ◽  
Prestigious Journal ◽  
Capital Conversion ◽  
Transfer Mechanisms

In this paper, we analyze a relatively recent commercial strategy devised by large academic publishers, consisting in the branding of their most prestigious scientific journals. Using Pierre Bourdieu’s model of capital conversion, we show how publishers transfer the symbolic capital of an already prestigious journal to derivative journals that capture part of the prestige of the original brand and transform it into new economic capital. As shown by their high impact factors, these new journals, bearing the mark of the original journal in their titles, are rapidly adopted by researchers. Through manuscript transfer mechanisms, publishers also use part of the papers rejected by their flagship and highly selective journals to recycle and monetize them in lower impact or open access derivative journals of their lists.

scholarly journals Scientific citations in Wikipedia

First Monday ◽  
2007 ◽  
Author(s):  
Finn Arup Nielsen
Keyword(s):  
Web Sites ◽  
Scientific Literature ◽  
High Impact ◽  
Impact Factors ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Scientific Journals ◽  
Slight Tendency ◽  
Journal Citation Reports ◽  
Good Agreement

The Internet-based encyclopaedia Wikipedia has grown to become one of the most visited Web sites on the Internet, but critics have questioned the quality of entries. An empirical study of Wikipedia found errors in a 2005 sample of science entries. Biased coverage and lack of sources are among the "Wikipedia risks." This paper describes a simple assessment of these aspects by examining the outbound links from Wikipedia articles to articles in scientific journals with a comparison against journal statistics from Journal Citation Reports such as impact factors. The results show an increasing use of structured citation markup and good agreement with citation patterns seen in the scientific literature though with a slight tendency to cite articles in high-impact journals such as Nature and Science. These results increase confidence in Wikipedia as a reliable information resource for science in general.

Impact Factors in Scientific Journals: Keeping a Balance for the JOI Readers

2012 ◽  
Vol 38 (4) ◽  
pp. 309-310
Author(s):  
James L. Rutkowski ◽  
Sheldon Winkler ◽  
Robert J. Buhite ◽  
Sebastiano Andreana ◽  
H. Dexter Barber ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Impact Factors ◽  
Scientific Journals

A Study of Availability and Recovery of URLs in Library and Information Science Scholarly Journals

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 51-61
Author(s):  
B. Niveditha ◽  
Mallinath Kumbar
Keyword(s):  
Impact Factor ◽  
Information Science ◽  
Editorial Staff ◽  
Time Travel ◽  
High Impact ◽  
Library And Information Science ◽  
High Impact Factor ◽  
Scholarly Journals ◽  
Web Archives ◽  
Research Findings

The present study examines the availability and recovery of web references cited in scholarly journals selected based on their high impact factor published between 2008 and 2017. A PHP script was used to crawl the Uniform Resource Locators (URL) collected from the references. A total of 5720 articles were downloaded and 237418 references were extracted. A total of 33512 URLs were checked for their availability. Further the lexical features of URLs like file extension, path depth, character length and top-level domain was determined. The research findings indicated that out of 33512 web references, 20218 contained URLs, DOIs were found in 12799 references and 495 references contained arXiv or WOS identifier. It was found that 29760 URLs were accessible and the remaining 3752 URLs were missing. Most errors were due to HTTP 404 error code (Not found error). The study also tried to recover the inaccessible URLs through Time Travel. Almost 60.55% of inaccessible URLs were archived in various web archives. The findings of the study will be helpful to authors, publishers, and editorial staff to ensure that web references will be accessible in future.

scholarly journals The costly prestige ranking of scholarly journals

Ravnetrykk ◽  
2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bård Smedsrød ◽  
Leif Longva
Keyword(s):  
Scientific Journals ◽  
Scholarly Work ◽  
Walk Away ◽  
Scholarly Journals ◽  
Profit Margins ◽  
Scholarly Community ◽  
Pull Out ◽  
Long Time ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
Licensing Deal

The prestige ranking of scholarly journals is costly to science and to society. Researchers’ payoff in terms of career progress is determined largely from where they publish their findings, and less from the content of their scholarly work. This fact creates perverted incentives for the researchers. Valuable research time is spent in trying to satisfy reviewers and editors, rather than spending their time in the most productive direction. This in turn leads to unnecessary long time from research findings are made until they become public. This costly system is upheld by the scholarly community itself. Scholars supply the journals with time, serving as reviewers and editors without any paycheck asked, even though the bulk of scientific journals are published by big commercial enterprises enjoying super profit margins. The super profit results from expensive licensing deals with the scholarly institutions. The free labour offered, on top of the payment for the licensing deals, should be viewed as part of the payment to these publishers – a payment in kind. Why not use this as a negotiating chip towards the publishers? If a publisher asks more than acceptable for a licensing deal, rather than walk away with no deal, the scholarly institutions could pull out all the free labour offered by reviewers and editors.

scholarly journals Commodification of usada bali: between profit-oriented and negotiation of sasana balian

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 136-144
Author(s):  
Ida Bagus Suatama ◽  
Anak Agung Ngurah Anom Kumbara ◽  
A. A. Sagung Kartika Dewi
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Capital ◽  
Qualitative Analysis ◽  
Medical Practice ◽  
Code Of Ethics ◽  
Critical Ethnography ◽  
Symbolic Capital ◽  
Economic Capital ◽  
Mutual Transformation ◽  
Economic Interests ◽  
Professional Code

The purpose of this research is to understand and explain the discourse and practice of commodifying the usada Bali and negotiating the balian atmosphere in relation to economic interests. The method used is critical ethnography with qualitative analysis. This study found that the practice of commodifying usada Bali by balian was done by manipulating cultural capital, symbolic capital, and economic capital in the domains and dynamics of the habitus of usada Bali treatment to achieve economic goals. In medical practice, the balian people conduct negotiations in the gymnasium as a professional code of ethics in the midst of increasingly tighter competition in medical services. The findings of this study reflect the occurrence of mutual transformation in the practice of Balinese usada medicine due to the hegemony of modernity.

scholarly journals Power Relation In Memoirs Of Geisha And The Dancer

2014 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 151
Author(s):  
Mundi Rahayu ◽  
Lia Emelda ◽  
Siti Aisyah
Keyword(s):  
Symbolic Capital ◽  
Power Relation ◽  
Economic Capital ◽  
The Other ◽  
Female Character ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Close Interaction ◽  
And Performance

This article aims at comparing the ideas of power relation between themain female character and ―Mother‖ in Arthur Golden‘s Memoirs ofGeisha and Ahmad Tohari‘s The Dancer. These two novels share thesame main female character of traditional entertainers, as a Japanese geisha and a Javanese traditional dancer, respectively. As an entertainer in the traditional sphere, they are bounded with the other women and build close interaction as well as power relation with them who are called ―Mother‖ in the Geisha and ―ronggeng shaman‖ in The Dancer. Thepower relation between them are unique and dynamics. This is analyzed through Foucault‘s theory of power. The result of the analysis shows that the power relation is not stable, and the power practiced by each of them is influenced by the symbolic capital and economic capital they have. The negotiation and contestation come up between the actors in dailypractices as geisha and the mother, as the ―ronggeng‖ and the shaman. As the entertainers, the geisha and ―ronggeng‖ build and shape their body and performance to attract men. This geisha and ronggeng culture reproduce many other cultural product such as ―mizuage‖ in geisha, and ―bukak klambu‖ in ―ronggeng‖ both of which refer to the same thing, selling the woman‘s virginity to the highest bidder. In geisha it is used to benefit the Mother of Okiya and no rebellion of the geisha. On the other hand, Srintil does rebellious action in this ―bukak klambu‖ occasion. There seems to be different message from these two novels, The Dancer is much more questioning the norms covering the ―ronggeng‖ tradition while the Memoirs of Geisha tends to be accepting the geisha tradition as what it is.Keywords: Power Relation; Geisha ; Ronggeng ; Norms

scholarly journals Publication trends in a high impact journal: the case of World Psychiatry

2018 ◽  
Vol 35 (1) ◽  
pp. 25-30
Author(s):  
Bakthavachalam Elango ◽  
James Hartley
Keyword(s):  
High Impact ◽  
Impact Factors ◽  
Board Members ◽  
Journal Title ◽  
High Impact Journal ◽  
Middle Income ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Number Of Publications

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the bibliometric characteristics of papers published in a high impact journal World Psychiatry during the period 2006-2015. Design/methodology/approach The data for this study were obtained from Thompson Reuters’ “Web of Science”. Publication details were extracted for the journal title “World Psychiatry”. This study covers authorship patterns, annual growth, impact factors, document types, top contributors, international collaborations, highly cited papers and keyword analyses. Software programs such as “Histcite”, “intcoll.exe”, “Pajek” and “Leximancer” were used to analyze the publications. Findings More than half of the publications were by editorial materials and number of publications from low and middle income countries is very low when compared to proportion of editorial board members. Almost 40 per cent of papers came from the USA and editorial board members had considerable number of papers. Kings College London led the institutions. Originality/value Analysis of high impact journals in the field of psychiatry has been carried out in a very few. Hence, the results of this study will be useful to compare with other journals.

Ritual Practice and Textual Representations

2019 ◽  
pp. 220-238
Author(s):  
André J. Krischer
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Foreign Relations ◽  
Social Acceptance ◽  
Symbolic Capital ◽  
Social Recognition ◽  
Economic Capital ◽  
Ritual Practice ◽  
Reciprocal Exchange ◽  
Textual Representations ◽  
Ritual Process

Early modern diplomacy was never a princely and aristocratic province alone. Republics also sent and received diplomats or participated in peace conferences. Whereas this sort of republican diplomacy was basically accepted at the princely courts, Free Imperial Cities such as Bremen and Cologne faced significant difficulties when trying to gain recognition. Nonetheless, there were continuous efforts by the imperial cities to play their part in early modern diplomacy, not least because of the prestige that could be earned by participating in this sphere and its rituals. For them foreign relations were always a ritual process: ceremonial interaction was at its centre, since princely recognition of ceremonial receptions or urban emissaries conferred political and social acceptance of the imperial cities’ status. Ceremonial interaction between princes and cities often involved a reciprocal exchange of capital: of economic capital paid back as symbolic capital, as gestures of social recognition which were recorded in detail in the urban books of ceremony. Writing was therefore crucial for the symbolic dimensions of urban diplomacy. The imperial cities’ ceremony books were meant to be filled with reports about ceremony which were regarded as a gain of symbolic capital materialized in writing.

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