The prevalence and impact of special issues in communications journals 2015–2019

Repiso, Rafael; Segarra-Saavedra, Jesús; Hidalgo-Marí, Tatiana; Tur‐Viñes, Victoria

doi:10.1002/leap.1406

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“…Many journals attempt to address this issue by creating special issues that often incorporate subjects out of their conventional scope. Apart from the demands from interdisciplinary research, special issues also bring many benefits to journals, including higher scientific impacts, the volume of submissions, and profitability (Repiso et al, 2021). In the digital age, organizing special issues are deemed an effective way of organizing scientific works, expanding a journal's scope, exploring novel approaches, and re‐examining topics from new perspectives, especially when research has become more and more interdisciplinary in today's world (Anbazhagan et al, 2019; Steffen et al, 2021).…”

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The editor: A demanding but underestimated role in scientific publishing

Vuong

2022

Learned Publishing

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Key points Editorial services and editors' hard work are mostly underestimated, and yet the increase in articles, issues and journals requires more editors. Early Career Researchers should be encouraged to join editorial teams to advance their careers and improve their research skills. Working as an editor should receive greater recognition and reward, which will encourage greater participation by senior and junior researchers. Senior editors should create training opportunities for ECRs as it will help strengthen editorial teams and build resilience. The key requirements for any ECR joining an editorial team are to learn the rules, become an excellent communicator, learn to read in different roles and be prepared to do their homework.

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Section: The Shortage Of Editorsmentioning

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The editor: A demanding but underestimated role in scientific publishing

Vuong

2022

Learned Publishing

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“…It is, therefore, the role of early editors that shape the role the new journal may take on and whether the journal can fulfill such criteria. Accompanying the early years of journals with special issues seems advantageous for the publisher since ‘the publication of special issues appears to offer the potential benefits of attracting submissions, increasing profits, and improving impact' (Repiso et al, 2021 , p. 599). By such means, the guest editor is accorded a foundational role for laying grounds for a journal's agenda and its potential success.…”

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The Rise of the Guest Editor—Discontinuities of Editorship in Scholarly Publishing

Knöchelmann

Hesselmann

Reinhart

et al. 2022

Front. Res. Metr. Anal.

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Scholarly publishing lives on traditioned terminology that gives meaning to subjects such as authors, inhouse editors and external guest editors, artifacts such as articles, journals, special issues, and collected editions, or practices of acquisition, selection, and review. These subjects, artifacts, and practices ground the constitution of scholarly discourse. And yet, the meaning ascribed to each of these terms shifts, blurs, or is disguised as publishing culture shifts, which becomes manifest in new digital publishing technology, new forms of publishing management, and new forms of scholarly knowledge production. As a result, we may come to over- or underestimate changes in scholarly communication based on traditioned but shifting terminology. In this article, we discuss instances of scholarly publishing whose meaning shifted. We showcase the cultural shift that becomes manifest in the new, prolific guest editor. Though the term suggests an established subject, this editorial role crystallizes a new cultural setting of loosened discourse communities and temporal structures, a blurring of publishing genres and, ultimately, the foundations of academic knowledge production.

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“…En un estudio previo (Olk; Gri ffith, 2004) también se constata el aumento en el número de special issues en las principales revistas de Management. Por su parte González- Sala et al (2017) encuentran que el 25,5% de artículos en diez revistas iberoamericanas de Psicología se publican en números especiales mientras que Repiso et al (2021) concluyen que hasta el 19% de los artículos en las revistas de Comunicación en el período 2015-2019 se publican en números temáticos.…”

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“…Para el conjunto de las ciencias, uno de cada diez números de revista son especiales o monográficos. números especiales en comparación con la recibida por los trabajos editados en números regulares de la misma revista (Conlon et al, 2006;González-Sala et al, 2017;Gardner et al, 2010;Ashraf, 2020;Khan et al, 2021; Sainte-Marie; Mongeon; Larivière, 2020; Repiso et al, 2021).…”

Section: Números Especiales Monográficosunclassified

“…Un asunto menos tratado en la bibliografía sobre volúmenes monográficos ha sido el papel del editor o editores invitados de los números especiales. Repiso et al (2021) señalan que lo habitual es que estén subordinados al editor de la revista y se integren en los procesos evaluativos de la misma, pero en algunos casos sustituyen al editor general en el contexto de su número temático, controlando el proceso de evaluación, es decir, proponiendo temáticas concretas, designando revisores y lo que es más importante, decidiendo qué trabajos se publican y cuáles se rechazan. Las motivaciones de los editores invitados para proponer o participar en un monográfico varían desde el mero servicio a la comunidad, el ejercer control u orientar las temáticas y publicaciones en una materia (Mowday, 2006), situarse como referente en ese tema emergente, contar con mayor facilidad para publicar en dicho número especial, o cumplir con los requisitos impuestos en los procesos de promoción y recompensa académica.…”

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El año que nos volvimos insostenibles: Análisis de la producción española en Sustainability (2020)

Repiso

Merino-Arribas

Cabezas-Clavijo

2021

EPI

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The journal Sustainability, published by MDPI, was the journal that published the most papers by researchers from Spanish institutions in 2020. This justifies a detailed examination of the Spanish scientific production in this journal. At the same time, the work of editing monographic issues in which papers with Spanish authors have been published is analyzed. For this purpose, we have identified whether each paper belongs to regular or to special issues of the journal, identifying whether the author of the paper is also editor of the monograph, or a university colleague. The nationality of the editors was also studied. The subject matter of the articles and their belonging to the area of the journal were analyzed. Most of the papers published by Spanish authors were published in special issues (81.6%), mainly edited by authors of the same nationality (63.1%). It is also found that there is an important production carried out by the same editor of the monograph, or by colleagues from the same institution. It is also found that a substantial number of works published in Sustainability (42.3%) have minimal or no relationship with the subject of sustainability. Finally, the implications of these findings are discussed under the light of the publication strategies of Spanish researchers and the science evaluation policies applied in Spain. The main controversial aspects identified have to do with the publication of papers on other subjects, the value of publishing in monographs, which in some cases could be considered as inbreeding, and the short editing times. Resumen La revista Sustainability, de la editorial MDPI, fue en 2020 la revista que publicó más trabajos de investigadores de instituciones españolas. Esto justifica un examen detallado de la producción científica española en dicha revista. Se analiza también la labor de edición de números monográficos en los cuales se han publicado trabajos con autores españoles. Para ello se ha identificado la pertenencia de cada trabajo a números especiales y a números regulares de la revista, identificando si el autor del trabajo es también editor del monográfico, o compañero de universidad. Igualmente se estudia la nacionalidad de los editores. Se analiza la temática de los artículos y su pertenencia al área de la revista. La mayor parte de los trabajos publicados por autores españoles se difundieron en números especiales (81,6%), principalmente editados por autores de la misma nacionalidad (63,1%). Se ve asimismo que existe una importante producción realizada por el mismo editor del monográfico, o por colegas de la misma institución. También se encuentra que un número sustancial de trabajos publicados en Sustainability (42,3%) guarda una relación mínima o inexistente con la temática de la Sostenibilidad. Finalmente, se discuten las implicaciones de estos hallazgos a la luz de las estrategias de publicación de los investigadores españoles y de las políticas de evaluación de la ciencia aplicadas en España. Los principales aspectos polémicos identificados tienen que ver con la publicación de trabajos de otros temas, el valor de la publicación en monográficos que en algunos casos podrían ser considerados como endogamia y los reducidos tiempos de edición.

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The prevalence and impact of special issues in communications journals 2015–2019

Cited by 14 publications

References 13 publications

The editor: A demanding but underestimated role in scientific publishing

The editor: A demanding but underestimated role in scientific publishing

The Rise of the Guest Editor—Discontinuities of Editorship in Scholarly Publishing

El año que nos volvimos insostenibles: Análisis de la producción española en Sustainability (2020)

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