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GEARING JOURNALS TOWARDS BEING INDEXED AND ABSTRACTED IN DATABASES

GEARING JOURNALS TOWARDS BEING INDEXED AND ABSTRACTED IN DATABASES. Peter Brimblecombe School of Environmental Sciences University of East Anglia Norwich NR4 7TJ UK. photograph courtesy <a href="http://philip.greenspun.com/">Philip Greenspun</a>. ATTRACTING READERS.

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GEARING JOURNALS TOWARDS BEING INDEXED AND ABSTRACTED IN DATABASES

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  1. GEARING JOURNALS TOWARDS BEING INDEXED AND ABSTRACTED IN DATABASES Peter Brimblecombe School of Environmental Sciences University of East Anglia Norwich NR4 7TJ UK photograph courtesy <a href="http://philip.greenspun.com/">Philip Greenspun</a>

  2. ATTRACTING READERS • Access… especially electronic • Sustained physical and intellectual quality • Novel not recycled material or incremental publishing • Limited duplication from • Websites • Conference publications • Journal well advertised • Parts - 1 and 2 at least must exist!

  3. ATTRACTING AUTHORS • Rapid and fair review • Regular and rapid publication • Good editorial communication • Sustained physical and intellectual quality • Access to appeals • Prestige, impact

  4. AUTHOR SATISFACTION Importance of publishing factors AE rating

  5. ETHICS, APPEALS, ADJUDICATION • Be alert to ethical issues- experiments • Publication ethics • Develop appeal processes • Join Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE)  "Our editors face an increasing number of cases of plagiarism and unethical publishing behaviour….. publishing ethics is a major aspect of the peer-review process…” Martin Tanke Managing Director, Elsevier S&T Journals Publishing. http://www.publicationethics.org.uk/

  6. DATABASE CRITERIAMedline/SCOPUS/ISI • Citable authored content • Refereed • Internationally relevant - board/authors • Regular, timely, persistent • Respected • Electronic presence ISI – team of bibliometricians… SCOPUS – content board and college www.info.scopus.com/suggesttitle

  7. FINDING REFEREES • Important as they drive quality • Referee quality • people of standing in the field • independent – not related to author • is it important they know the journal • geographical location • Scientists who cite the author a lot make good referees • Identify potential problems or flaws to referee • Ask for conflict of interest

  8. EDITORSFINDING REFEREES • Ranking potential referee (or author) • e.g. DEW CHEMISTRY – incoming Okochi MS

  9. EDITORSREFEREE CHECKS Earlier co-authorship spotted immediately: subject of Okochi MS by suggested Igawa but many co-authored papers

  10. EDITORSREFEREE CHOICE • See who cites the author lots and seeing if they‘d be a good referee

  11. STRATEGICJOURNAL MANAGEMENT • Growth in topic areas • Analysis of past performance of papers • Structure of journal

  12. EDITORSCITATIONS vs ARTICLE LENGTH Citations to Papers Mean Atmospheric Environment 1999-2000

  13. CUMMULATIVE CITATIONS Nature Environment Science & Technology Atmospheric Environment

  14. Europhotonics, press, television, radio… even National Geographic! PRESS RELEASESProfile of interesting, but potentially neglected papers

  15. INCREASING THE IMPACT FACTOR • Increasing quality • Widening access to journal’s audience • Publishing timely reviews • Increasing publication speed • Integrated cross-referenced special issues • Requiring updated reference lists • Biasing time to beginning of year Generally regarded as ethical…?

  16. ETHICAL ISSUES Ethical Editing Autumn 2009

  17. CITATION ENGINEERING… typically by increasing internal citations • Increasing the number of citable non-article items: letters, product reviews etc • Writing heavily self-referenced editorials • Pressuring authors to cite the journal • Manipulating the reference lists Usually regarded as unethical…?

  18. LIBRARIANSLOTKA'S LAW The number of authors making n contributions is about 1/na of those making one contribution, where a is often nearly 2

  19. LIBRARIANSBRADFORD'S LAW Journals in a field can be divided into three parts, each with about one-third of all articles • a core of a few journals • a second zone, with more journals; and • third zone, with the bulk of journals

  20. IMPACT AND H-FACTORS • Total number of citations • H-factors – avoid the tail

  21. END Peter Brimblecombe School of Environmental Sciences University of East Anglia Norwich NR4 7TJ UK

  22. ATMOSPHERIC ENVIRONMENT BECOMES GREAT! MOST CITED PAPERS SCOPUS COMPETES EFFECTIVELY SCOPUS Citations ISI Citations

  23. University RAE threshold Professorial expectation PROMOTE!!! DEPARTMENTAL STRUCTURE Junior staff RAE stars ~ recent output H-factor ~ prestige/impact Professors

  24. CUMMUATIVE CITATIONS Nature Environment Science & Technology Atmospheric Environment

  25. LIBRARIANSREGIONAL EXPERIENCES • Analysis to aid collection development • Good regional content (peripheral vision) means higher citation rates for staff/institutions • Electronic copy or online journals – important where holdings are smaller • Importance to teaching Malaysia and New Zealand

  26. P. Abélard (3) Student of Abelard, noted from earlier co- authored papers (18) H. Fulbert (4) M. Argenteuil and H. Fulbert(2) M. Argenteuil (3) Bernard of Clairvaux Abbot Adam (2) John of Salisbury (2) ADMINISTRATORSCITATION CHAINS Interpreting Trinitarian dogmas P. Abélard also possible to do the analysis on an institutional or national basis…

  27. TEACHERS IDENTIFYING MINI PROJECTS AIR POLLUTION AND THE OLYMPICS • Beijing air pollution project to benefit 2008 Olympic Games • Environmental factors in the summer Olympics in historical perspective • The pollution climate and athletic performance • Blue skies in Beijing? Looking at the Olympic effect • Implications of air pollution effects on athletic performance. • Ozone reductions during Olympic period due to congestion reducing measures • Athletic performance and urban air pollution • The Los Angeles Olympic Games: Effects of pollution unclear • Summer Olympics to be under ozone cloud

  28. RESEARCHERSDISCIPLINARY TRENDS

  29. DATABASES AND TEACHINGLibrary Connect Aug 2007 p. 7 • ALISON JOHNSTON University of Canterbury NZ • WoK or SCOPUS allowed students to assemble scholarly reference lists • Weaned them away from Google I discuss with students the importance of identifying the peer-reviewed scientific literature.... http://libraryconnect.elsevier.com/lcn/0503/lcn0503.pdf

  30. AIR POLLUTION AND MUSEUMS TEACHERS READING LIST/ ESSAY SOURCES • Building a reading list for an essay through multiple searches and sorts

  31. CUMMULATIVE CITATIONS Nature Environment Science & Technology Atmospheric Environment

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