On the tips of their tongues: authors and their views on scholarly publishing

Nicholas, David; Jamali, Hamid R.; Rowlands, Ian

doi:10.1087/095315106777877494

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“…Consequently, publication delays, and hence waiting times, have always worried editors and submitting authors alike, and this in all fields of science. It is often said that one of the advantages of the electronic age is a reduction of the time between manuscript submission and the final publication (Abt, ; Desjardins, ; Nicolas, Jamali, & Rowlands, ; Schaffner, ). Moreover, waiting times and publication delays are typically factors incorporated in models of the publication‐citation process (Egghe & Rousseau, ; Yu, Yu, & Li, ).…”

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Interactions between journal attributes and authors' willingness to wait for editorial decisions

Rousseau

2012

J Am Soc Inf Sci Tec

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In this article, we report on a discrete choice experiment to determine the willingness‐to‐wait (WTW) in the context of journal submissions. Respondents to our survey are mostly active in the information sciences, including librarians. Besides WTW, other attributes included in the study are the quality of the editorial board, the quality of referee reports, the probability of being accepted, the ISI impact factor, and the standing of the journal among peers. Interaction effects originating from scientists' personal characteristics (age, region of origin, motivations to publish) with the WTW are highlighted. A difference was made between submitting a high quality article and a standard article. Among the interesting results obtained from our analysis we mention that for a high‐quality article, researchers are willing to wait some 18 months longer for a journal with an ISI impact factor above 2 than for a journal without an impact factor, keeping all other factors constant. For a standard article, the WTW decreases to some 8 months. Gender had no effect on our conclusions.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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Interactions between journal attributes and authors' willingness to wait for editorial decisions

Rousseau

2012

J Am Soc Inf Sci Tec

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“…Most of the quantitative studies have taken the form of surveys (Coles, 1993;Mabe & Mulligan, 2011;Nicholas et al, 2006;Rowlands et al, 2004). A pioneering study looking quantitatively at author behavior was conducted by Coles (1993).…”

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“…Rowlands et al (2004) reveal that senior authors want the following abilities: to target a very specific group of key readers; to "narrowcast" to those working on similar problems; to access the imprimatur of quality and integrity that a good, peerreviewed, high-impact title can offer; and to reach reasonable levels of publisher service. Nicholas et al (2006) also studied the attitudes of senior authors towards scholarly publishing by extracting themes from their textual comments and noted that senior authors' main concerns are the peer-review process, faster publishing, better access to journals, journal prices, and issues related to electronic publishing. Mabe and Mulligan (2011) report on the annual summaries of the 2002 and 2009 result sets of the Elsevier Author Feedback Program.…”

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“…Authors are not only "customers" but also content providers, and the content determines the academic level of a journal. Many attempts have been made to examine authors' concerns and expectations of journals (Coles, 1993;Mabe & Mulligan, 2011;Nicholas, Jamali, & Rowlands, 2006;Pitts & Stanley, 2007;Rowlands, Nicholas, & Huntington, 2004). However, the respondents in these studies are drawn largely from North America and Europe (see for example Rowlands et al, 2004) with few researchers concentrating on the perceptions of authors from other regions.…”

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The Concerns of Authors: Textual Analysis of Online Journal Reviews

Zhang

Law

2013

Serials Review

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a b s t r a c tThis paper presents the results of an investigation of Chinese authors' attitudes towards, and concerns about, academic journals by analyzing their comments posted on a journal review Web site. The views of 338 authors about 13 Chinese academic journals in the library and information science field were collected. Using word frequency, word co-occurrence, and factor analysis, their comments were processed and the important factors extracted. The authors addressed a series of aspects regarding the journal itself, the review and publication process, and the service provided by editors. The paper provides a unique opportunity to understand Chinese authors' views using a direct source.

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“…As a consequence, academics starting their careers may not receive the credits needed to secure a follow-up grant or academic position in time, and may opt for nonacademic job security in order to support their family. 7,21 Therefore you have to ensure that never blindly rely on reference software alone LEARNED PUBLISHING VOL. 26 NO.…”

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