{"title":"‘Word Cloud’ as a Graphical Supplement to a Scientific Article (Editor-in-Chief’s Column)","authors":"R. Ostapenko","doi":"10.46224/ecoc.2020.4.1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.46224/ecoc.2020.4.1","url":null,"abstract":"An ever-greater number of journals now not only publish text content but also try to provide graphical abstracts for manuscripts. A graphical abstract is a graphical presentation of the main conclusions of the paper. The figure can be taken from the paper or specially designed. At the same time, it should represent the content of the paper as much as possible and be understandable for readers. However, it is not always possible to create a graphical abstract, for example, for review and theoretical articles in the field of social and economic sciences. The editors of the Economic Consultant journal suggested publishing a “word cloud” as a graphical supplement to a scientific paper. Since 2019, the “word cloud” has been published for each paper. A word cloud is a visualization of word frequency in a text. The font size of each word in the \"cloud\" is determined by its prevalence in the text. The word cloud helps readers to understand what basic keywords and terms the author uses directly in the text of the paper. To present this visualization, the editors decided to use the service https://wordscloud.pythonanywhere.com/. The layout designer can process the paper, using only its text (without the title, abstract, and references). From 2020, the editorial board decided to publish such graphical supplements not only in pdf articles but also on the pages of journal articles. However, we understand that graphical supplements cannot substitute for graphical abstracts, and the development of the latter seems to us to be a promising trend in the development of the Economic Consultant journal.","PeriodicalId":274951,"journal":{"name":"InfoSciRN: Print & Electronic Publishing (Topic)","volume":"99 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-11-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132676256","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Impact of Digitization on Print Book Sales: Analysis using Genre Exposure Heterogeneity","authors":"Siddhartha Sharma, Rahul Telang, Alejandro Zentner","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.3579521","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3579521","url":null,"abstract":"We study whether digitization, sparked by the launch of Amazon Kindle in late 2007, led to a reduction in print book sales. To estimate the impact, we exploit the quasi-experimental variation in the popularity of digital books across different genres or sub-genres such as fiction, non-fiction, juvenile, or religion. We employ a difference-in-differences identification strategy and use print sales data on almost the entire population of book titles published in the United States between 2004-15 across a variety of genres. We find that, on average, digitization decreased print sales of adult fiction books (the most popular genre in the e-book format) by about 30%. We also find that the effect is higher after the launch of the iPad, and stronger for the paperback version and low-selling books.","PeriodicalId":274951,"journal":{"name":"InfoSciRN: Print & Electronic Publishing (Topic)","volume":"45 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-11-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126039614","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}