The Arabic Citation Index - Toward a better understanding of Arab scientific literature

El-Ouahi, Jamal

doi:10.21203/rs.3.rs-1917781/v2

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“…The ARCI selection criteria have been described as a “subset of the Web of Science Core Collection selection process” and are based on “traditional scientific publishing standards and the scholarly research norms of the Arab region”. 27 …”

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Deficient editorial practices, perceived quality, and expedient scholarly publishing in a developing nation

Bredan,

Tashani,

Bakoush

2024

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Background There is increasing concern about the quality, integrity, and accessibility to research published in the developing world. This study explores the editorial practices and editors’ perspectives to gain insight into the standard of scholarly publishing in Libya. Methods Between 21st January and 12th February, 2022, the editors-in-chief (EC) of Libyan academic journals were invited to complete a questionnaire on editorial practices, degree of satisfaction with submitted and published manuscripts, review processes, and journal performance, as well as challenges facing the journals. Journal websites were examined for quality, and indexation coverage and citations were assessed. We examined the number of citations in Google Scholar for all 2019 articles published in each journal. Descriptive statistics were used to quantitatively summarize the data and thematic analysis was used for the narrative text. Results 48 EC completed the questionnaire. The EC was affiliated with the institution that owns the journal in 92% of cases. Most EC (83%) were satisfied with the peer-review quality, 69% believed that most of their published papers add new ideas or findings, and 96% were satisfied with their journal’s performance. However, despite the high degree of satisfaction, only one journal was indexed in Web of Science or Scopus and only 17% of the journals were indexed in Google Scholar. A qualitative assessment of journal websites revealed shortcomings in publishing practices in a large proportion of the journals. Conclusions The discordance between the satisfaction of the journal editors and the journal quality indicators points to a break in the quality system of Libyan academic publishing. Similar expedient publishing practices might exist in other countries as well. A comprehensive action plan led by academic institutions to enforce high standards for scholarly publishing is needed to advance research and high-quality scholarly publications in developing countries.

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Deficient editorial practices, perceived quality, and expedient scholarly publishing in a developing nation

Bredan,

Tashani,

Bakoush

2024

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“…The ARCI selection criteria have been described as a "subset of the Web of Science Core Collection selection process" and are based on "traditional scientific publishing standards and the scholarly research norms of the Arab region". 27 We did not search for the journals in the Arab Impact Factor (AIF) (https://www.arabimpactfactor.com/), produced by the Association of Arab Universities, because the content is not accessible, there are no links to the journals, and there is no description of where or how citations are counted.…”

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Editorial practices, perceived quality, and expedient scholarly publishing in a developing nation: a mixed methods study

Bredan,

Tashani,

Bakoush

2023

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Background: Scholarly literature from the developing world is low and the scientific impact in some countries, including Libya, is much lower compared with their peers. This study explores the editorial practices and editors’ perspectives to gain insight into the standard of scholarly publishing in Libya. Methods: Between 21st January and 12th February, 2022, the editors-in-chief (EC) of Libyan academic journals were invited to complete a questionnaire on editorial practices, degree of satisfaction with submitted and published manuscripts, review processes, and journal performance, as well as challenges facing the journals. Journal websites were examined for quality, and indexation coverage and citations were assessed. We examined the number of citations in Google Scholar for all 2019 articles published in each journal. Descriptive statistics were used to quantitatively summarize the data and thematic analysis was used for the narrative text. Results: 48 ECs completed the questionnaire. The EC was affiliated with the institution that owns the journal in 92% of cases. Most EC (83%) were satisfied with the peer-review quality, 69% believed that most of their published papers add new ideas or findings, and 96% were satisfied with their journal performance. However, despite the high degree of satisfaction, only one journal was indexed in Web of Science or Scopus and only 17% of the journals were indexed in Google Scholar. A qualitative assessment of journal websites revealed shortcomings in publishing practices in a large proportion of the journals. Conclusions: The discordance between the satisfaction of the journal editors and the journal quality indicators points to a break in the quality system of Libyan academic publishing. Similar expedient publishing practices might exist in other countries as well. A comprehensive action plan led by academic institutions to enforce high standards for scholarly publishing is needed to advance research and high-quality scholarly publications in developing countries.

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“…Similar discrepancies exist for other languages used in publication between what is included in high status indexes and other lists of publications. As another example, the Arabic Citation Index, launched in 2020 as a partnership between Clarivate Analytics and the Egyptian Ministry of Education, shows 290 journals produced in Arab League countries, with 93% of articles using Arabic (Clarivate Analytics, 2018;El Ouahi, 2021). The WoS, in contrast, covers only 146 Arabic-language journals (El Ouahi, 2021), while UlrichsWeb lists 107 journals.…”

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Multilingualism in academic writing for publication: Putting English in its place

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Lillis

2022

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We are living in an era characterized by multilingualism, global mobility, superdiversity (Blommaert, 2010), and digital communications. Mobility and multilingualism, however, have long characterized most geolinguistic contexts, including those where monolingual ideologies have influenced the formation of contemporary nation states (Cenoz, 2013). As language is a pillar of both curriculum and instruction, in many academic spaces around the world efforts are on the rise to acknowledge the colonial origins of English, decenter the dominance of Standard English(es), and decolonize knowledge production (e.g., Bhambra et al., 2018; de Sousa Santos, 2017). Additionally, many ‘inner circle’ (Kachru, 2001) Anglophone contexts have long witnessed the centrifugal forces of multilingualism. Yet what prevails in institutional academic contexts is a centripetal pull toward what has been captured in phrases such as ‘linguistic mononormativity’ (Blommaert & Horner, 2017) or ‘Anglonormativity’ (McKinney, 2017). Nowhere is this pull more evident than in the sphere of writing for publication, relentlessly construed as an ‘English Only’ space, as exemplified in Elnathan's (2021) claim in the journal Nature: ‘English is the international language of science, for better or for worse.’

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The Arabic Citation Index - Toward a better understanding of Arab scientific literature

Cited by 4 publications

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Deficient editorial practices, perceived quality, and expedient scholarly publishing in a developing nation

Deficient editorial practices, perceived quality, and expedient scholarly publishing in a developing nation

Editorial practices, perceived quality, and expedient scholarly publishing in a developing nation: a mixed methods study

Multilingualism in academic writing for publication: Putting English in its place

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