scholarly journals Editorial

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Kristian Mortensen ◽  
Brian Due
Keyword(s):  
Social Interaction ◽  
Open Access ◽  
Sense Making ◽  
Online Journal ◽  
Naturally Occurring

Welcome to the inaugural issue of Social Interaction. Video-Based Studies on Human Sociality – an open access online journal for analyses of sense-making practices in naturally occurring social interaction as well as methodological and conceptual discussions for empirically based studies.

scholarly journals Editorial

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Kristian Mortensen ◽  
Brian Due
Keyword(s):  
Social Interaction ◽  
Open Access ◽  
Sense Making ◽  
Online Journal ◽  
Naturally Occurring

Welcome to the inaugural issue of Social Interaction. Video-Based Studies on Human Sociality – an open access online journal for analyses of sense-making practices in naturally occurring social interaction as well as methodological and conceptual discussions for empirically based studies.

scholarly journals Happy birthday Archives of Pediatric Neurosurgery: we are two years old!

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (3(September-December)) ◽  
pp. e1122021
Author(s):  
Ricardo Santos De Oliveira ◽  
Matheus Fernando Manzolli Ballestero ◽  
Sergio Cavalheiro
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Clinical Case ◽  
Information Access ◽  
Pediatric Neurosurgery ◽  
Academic Community ◽  
Editorial Office ◽  
Online Journal ◽  
Happy Birthday

An unlikely idea became a reality in June 2019 when we gathered an enthusiastic group and started testing the platform & workflow by OJS/PKP thus turning an idea into something concrete. The next step would be choosing the name of the journal and creating the website. Finally, the choice of the national and international editorial board based on academic and scientific criteria. Archives of Pediatric Neurosurgery (APN) was born. We published the very first issue of the APN in September 2019. The decision was to use of the Internet and related technologies as an enabler and infrastructure for health innovations.  The use of information and communication technologies and the web helps to empower patients (not least through peer-to-peer communications), provides a platform for communication, clinical information and telemedicine (these days often through mobile devices), and revolutionizes information access and medical education [1]. We were not only innovating on content, but also on form. We were the first open access electronic-only journal in pediatric neurosurgery, and also, we are on social media as Facebook, Instagram and tweeter. We have different types of publication highlighted the clinical case, video clinical case, and clinical video lecture. Our YouTube channel, together with SBNPed, has a total of 48 videos and  more than a thousand inscriptions. The Archives of Pediatric Neurosurgery is a triannual peer-reviewed medical online journal and was recognized in September 2020 as the official publication of the Brazilian Society for Pediatric Neurosurgery.   We believe APN will contribute in furthering efforts to make our dream a reality getting a pediatric neurosurgery medical journal to be recognize in the world as option to publish original papers, clinical case, video clinical case, and others.   Some statistics related to APN:   MOST DOWNLOADED PDF ARTICLE: Dezena et al. Anatomy of the ventricular system: Historical and morphological aspects MOST READ ABSTRACT: Furlanetti et al. Shunt Technology in Pediatric Neurosurgery: Current options and Scientific Evidence MOST CITED ARTICLE: de Oliveira RS, Ballestero MFM.  The Covid-19 Outbreak and Pediatric Neurosurgery guidelines Submissions Received 112   In two years, APN has published 62 international peer-review medical journals in 5 issues from September, 2019 to August, 2021. All articles are available online and free license to open access and download. All the papers were peer-reviewed (Figure 1). During this period, we included a specialized consultancy and we were able to index the APN in several indexing bases: Google Scholar, Cengage, REDIB, Crossref, Dimensions, and the most recent J-Gate. On this special occasion the editorial office would like to extend their greatest appreciation to all editors, and reviewers who have been supportive, and devoted much of their time and effort in nurturing APN. The journal, in particular, would like to thank the authors for placing their faith in this new, bold journal when it was still in its beginning stages. This continuous support has been pivotal to the development of the journal. In the times to come, APN will remain committed to publishing novel, high-quality, and valuable content. APN endeavors to bring readers the most up-to-date information in a wide variety of fields in the hopes of ultimately benefiting patients, all while ensuring the largest possible readership for all articles published in the journal. In our modern globalized academic community, APN recognizes the importance of international collaborations, and seeks to promote itself as an international journal. We have organized a series of articles focusing on important topics in various fields, and invited international prominent experts to co-author.  Based on data from Google Analytics, APN is gaining momentum and attracting interest from readers.  The number of accesses to abstracts has been increasing progressively since 2019 (Figure 2). As Section Editors, they keep track of the latest and significant research in their areas and recommend international key opinion leaders to review and write editorial comments on those important topics.  We will pursue the serious work and include the APN in more indexing databases, expanding its importance in pediatric neurosurgery.  Yes, it's time to celebrate this incredible achievement! but continue the professional work. Happy Birthday Archives of Pediatric Neurosurgery! A long life for everyone!

Neither Individualistic nor Interactionist

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ezequiel Di Paolo ◽  
Hanne De Jaegher
Keyword(s):  
Social Interaction ◽  
Social Engagement ◽  
Individual Autonomy ◽  
Sense Making ◽  
Enactive Approach ◽  
Individual Agency ◽  
Hybrid Approaches ◽  
The Social ◽  
Mind And Body ◽  
Complex Forms

We summarize some of the main proposals of the enactive approach to social understanding and discuss some common misreadings of the notion of participatory sense-making. The emphasis on the role played by social interaction in the enactive perspective is sometimes misinterpreted as the adoption of an interactionist stance, whereby individual processes are less relevant. This is not the case, and we proceed to explain and exemplify the central role played by individual agency, subpersonal processes and subjective personal experience in the framework of participatory sense-making. This is clear from how social interaction is defined as involving the co-arising of autonomous relational patterns, not under the full control of any participant, but without loss of individual autonomy of those engaged in the social encounter. We discuss how interactive patterns can sustain a deep entanglement between brain, body and interactive dynamics during social engagement, as well as the functional role played in some case by collective dynamics. The enactive approach is neither individualistic, nor interactionist. However, we express skepticism regarding the usefulness of hybrid approaches, which perpetuate dualistic distinctions between mind and body. Instead, the tensions in the notion of participatory sense-making are elaborated dialectically, demonstrating how complex forms of social agency, including language, develop from the primordial tension in participatory sense-making.

scholarly journals Welcome to Religions, a New Open Access, Multidisciplinary and Comprehensive Online Journal

Religions ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-2 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Iver Kaufman
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Online Journal

Using a Tetradic Network Technique and a Transaction Cost Economic Analysis to illustrate an economic model for an open access medical journal

First Monday ◽  
2007 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael D. Mills ◽  
Robert J. Esterhay ◽  
Judah Thornewill
Keyword(s):  
Medical Journal ◽  
Open Access ◽  
Medical Physics ◽  
Open Access Journal ◽  
Scholarly Publishing ◽  
Production Costs ◽  
Transaction Cost Economic ◽  
Scientific Societies ◽  
Online Journal ◽  
The Cost

There is a crisis in scholarly publishing. The value of the scholarly information is frequently much less than the cost of providing that information. Consequently, libraries are suffering and scholars do not have access to information that they need. However, certain for-profit publishers and scientific societies are benefiting substantially from the current system. The Internet has demonstrated the potential to change this structure. The Budapest, Berlin and Bethesda initiatives show there is significant worldwide interest to replace the current controlled system with one that allows open access of scholarly information to anyone with Internet access. An examination of the scholarly publishing process is offered using a Tetradic Network Technique (TNT) and a Transaction Cost Economic (TCE) analysis as applied to a traditional subscription-based, print medical journal, Medical Physics, and a Web-based, open access medical journal, the Journal of Applied Clinical Medical Physics. The analysis identifies stakeholders and considers transaction and production costs. TCE analysis is performed between each of the following: Libraries, Scholars, Publishers and Societies, for a total of six transaction exchanges for both the traditional and the open access journal. This analysis allows costs to be compared more easily between the two types of journals, and provides the basis for a model online journal pro forma. Results demonstrate that while production costs remain approximately equivalent for the traditional and open access journal, total transaction costs are reduced by a factor of between 5 and 10 for the open access journal. While the cost of producing an eight-page article in a traditional medical journal is approximately US$2500, the cost of publishing the same article in an open access journal is less than US$500. Recommendations are offered that illustrate how an open access online journal may be produced by a university for approximately the cost of several library print journal subscriptions and physical storage of the printed material. Universities may therefore benefit through greater involvement with the scholarly publishing process. There are several considerations and recommendations that one may draw from this investigation. Universities pay for scholarly research, and then pay again to obtain access to published results. University libraries, always a significant cost center, are now in financial crisis. Scientific societies and large publishers gain under the traditional scholarly publication model. The copyright is essential; the one that holds the copyright holds the power in scholarly publishing. Modern open access initiatives state that scholars should retain copyright and publish online. Universities should require promotion and tenure committees to give equal weight to open access publications. Universities should go into the publishing business with scientific societies and control dissemination of scholarly knowledge for the public good.

scholarly journals Search engines increase online journal use more than open access

BMJ ◽  
2006 ◽  
Vol 332 (7554) ◽  
pp. 1353.1 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susan Mayor
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Search Engines ◽  
Online Journal

Some ‘technical challenges’ of video analysis: social actions, objects, material realities and the problems of perspective

2012 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 255-279 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Luff ◽  
Christian Heath
Keyword(s):  
Social Interaction ◽  
Detailed Analysis ◽  
Video Analysis ◽  
Video Data ◽  
Technical Consideration ◽  
Camera Angle ◽  
Research Activities ◽  
Social Actions ◽  
Naturally Occurring ◽  
Conventional Solution

Unlike the wide-ranging methodological debates surrounding the accomplishment and analysis of interviews, fieldwork and focus groups, the discussions concerning the use of video data tend to focus on a few frequently rehearsed issues. In this article we wish to broaden the consideration of methodological concerns related to video. We address the problems faced when collecting data, particularly on how to select the framing for the recordings. We discuss the problems faced by researchers and how these have been addressed, revealing how a conventional solution has emerged that facilitates a particular kind of ‘multi-modal’ analysis. We then suggest some limitations of this framing and describe a number of recent approaches to recording video data that seek to overcome these constraints. While providing opportunities for very distinctive kinds of analyses, adopting these solutions places very particular demands on how data are collected, how research activities are conventionally undertaken, and perhaps more importantly, the nature of the analysis that is made possible. Although seeming to be a practical and technical consideration about recording data, selecting a camera angle uncovers methodological concerns that reveal the distinctive demands that video places on researchers concerned with the detailed analysis of naturally occurring social interaction.

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