posted by
martyb
on Thursday October 16 2014, @11:22AM
from the nonelite-is-non-elite-or-none-lite? dept.
from the nonelite-is-non-elite-or-none-lite? dept.
The journal Science has an article on the increasing diversification of scientific publishing, with a growing number highly cited papers appearing outside the "elite" journals (such as Science and Nature).
In 1995, only 27% of citations pointed to articles published in nonelite journals. That portion grew to 47% by 2013. And the nonelite journals published an increasing share of the most highly cited papers within each field as well, growing from 14% to 24%. The most dramatic egalitarian trends were in the areas of Computer Science, with a 133% increase in citations to nonelite journal articles, and Physics & Mathematics, with the fraction of most cited papers in nonelite journals more than doubling over the past 2 decades.
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Google Study Reports an Increase in the Diversity of Scientific Publishing
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(Score: 3, Insightful) by kaszz on Thursday October 16 2014, @11:53AM
Extort money -- Suffer the consequences?
High pricing for readers, give away waivers for submitters, sloppy acceptance procedures etc in an environment where information monopoly is a thing of the past?
(Score: 2, Interesting) by Tinyboss on Thursday October 16 2014, @12:07PM
Mathematicians have been pushing this for a while now, e.g. http://blog.mathunion.org/journals/?tx_t3blog_pi1%5BblogList%5D%5BshowUid%5D=30 [mathunion.org].
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 16 2014, @12:37PM
It's somewhat ironic that a paper saying that the importance of journals like Science is decreasing is itself published in Science.
(Score: 2, Informative) by Tinyboss on Thursday October 16 2014, @12:43PM
It's a news article published on their website, not a journal article.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 16 2014, @01:46PM
Print subscriptions are decreasing and internet distribution makes it easier to find good papers. These numbers will increase as more of the elderly academics die off.
(Score: 2) by aristarchus on Friday October 17 2014, @08:35AM
Do you think elderly academics cannot use computers? Subscriptions are declining because they are a form of extortion. Nothing to do with age of academics. Now get off my digital text-based research data base.
(Score: 2) by buswolley on Thursday October 16 2014, @04:05PM
I point the finger at Google Scholar...
subicular junctures