{"title":"Chinese PhD Students' Perceptions of Predatory Journals: A Survey Study","authors":"Jiayun Wang, Jie Xu, Dianyun Chen","doi":"10.3138/JSP.52.2.02","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3138/JSP.52.2.02","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This study investigates the attitudes of Chinese PhD students toward predatory journals. Data were gathered using an online questionnaire to which 332 Chinese PhD students responded. Our main conclusions are 1) in the sciences, technology, and medicine, respondents frequently confused predatory journals with open access journals; 2) in the humanities and social sciences, the respondents identified only Chinese-language (not English-language) journals as predatory and made a number of misidentifications; and 3) most respondents indicated that they would not submit papers to predatory journals, mainly because doing so would hurt their reputation, yet the minority who were willing to do so mentioned easy acceptance and a short wait time for publication as the top reasons for considering it.","PeriodicalId":44613,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Scholarly Publishing","volume":"96 1","pages":"106 - 88"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77338002","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Albert N. Greco. The Business of Scholarly Publishing: Managing in Turbulent Times","authors":"Donna A. Shear","doi":"10.3138/jsp.52.1.04","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3138/jsp.52.1.04","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44613,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Scholarly Publishing","volume":"24 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2020-10-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83291395","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"An Analysis of Spam from Predatory Publications in Library and Information Science","authors":"B. Lund, Ting Wang","doi":"10.3138/jsp.52.1.03","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3138/jsp.52.1.03","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Predatory journals pose a significant threat to the quality of scholarly publication across disciplines, including in library and information science (LIS). These publications are known to target researchers in developing countries and researchers for whom English is not their primary language. Such publications threaten the legitimacy of researchers who may already face an uphill battle to establish a name for themselves in their field. How predatory publishers target researchers in LIS through spam invitations is the subject of this study, which partly replicates a 2017 study by Clemons et al., who examined spam invitations in the field of oncology. The data set of the present study consists of ninety-eight spam invitations from predatory publishers received by the two co-authors over a six-week period. Data analysis shows the frequency of problematic elements of content in these invitations.","PeriodicalId":44613,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Scholarly Publishing","volume":"37 1","pages":"35 - 45"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2020-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80755388","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Branding Spin-Off Scholarly Journals: Transmuting Symbolic Capital into Economic Capital","authors":"Mahdi Khelfaoui, Y. Gingras","doi":"10.3138/jsp.52.1.01","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3138/jsp.52.1.01","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:In this article, we analyse a relatively recent commercial strategy used by large academic publishers to capitalize on the brand names of their most prestigious scientific journals. Using Pierre Bourdieu's model of capital conversion, we explain how publishers transfer the symbolic capital of an already prestigious journal to derivative journals that share in the prestige of the original brand and transform it into new economic capital. As shown by their high impact factors, these newly created journals benefit from the name recognition and reputation of the originals after which they are named. Plus, through a manuscript routing mechanism, the publishers recycle some of the submissions rejected by their highly selective flagship journal by redirecting those manuscripts, along with their reviews, to derivative journals or to one of the lower-impact journals on their list, which may require an article processing charge for publication.","PeriodicalId":44613,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Scholarly Publishing","volume":"27 1","pages":"1 - 19"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2020-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72826019","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Janet Salmons and Helen Kara. Publishing from Your Doctoral Research: Create and Use a Publication Strategy","authors":"Steven E. Gump","doi":"10.3138/jsp.52.1.07","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3138/jsp.52.1.07","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44613,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Scholarly Publishing","volume":"5 1","pages":"61-66"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2020-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90032713","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Ruth Panofsky. Toronto Trailblazers: Women in Canadian Publishing","authors":"Steven E. Gump","doi":"10.3138/jsp.52.1.05","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3138/jsp.52.1.05","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44613,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Scholarly Publishing","volume":"1 1","pages":"50-55"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2020-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83031220","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"James N. Corcoran, Karen Englander, and Laura-Mihaela Muresan, eds. Pedagogies and Policies for Publishing Research in English: Local Initiatives Supporting International Scholars","authors":"Kimkong Heng","doi":"10.3138/jsp.52.1.06","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3138/jsp.52.1.06","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44613,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Scholarly Publishing","volume":"9 1","pages":"55-61"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2020-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74967130","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Thinking about Starting an Interdisciplinary Journal: The Medical Humanities as a Case in Point","authors":"Lindsey Trevor Valancius, T. Lipscombe","doi":"10.3138/jsp.52.1.02","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3138/jsp.52.1.02","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Academia prizes interdisciplinarity. But what of publishing interdisciplinary journals? They hold the promise of appealing to two different disciplines yet run the risk of appealing to neither. Here we consider one interdisciplinary field, the medical humanities, and undertake a thought experiment: What questions should a publisher ask when considering the possibility of starting a new interdisciplinary journal?","PeriodicalId":44613,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Scholarly Publishing","volume":"53 1","pages":"20 - 34"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2020-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86568010","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Dawn Duke, Pam Denicolo, and Erin Henslee. Publishing for Impact","authors":"Steven E. Gump","doi":"10.3138/jsp.51.4.14","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3138/jsp.51.4.14","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44613,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Scholarly Publishing","volume":"214 1","pages":"324-330"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2020-07-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75541996","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Shuyi Chua. The Graduate Student as Writer: Encouragement for the Budding Scholar","authors":"Nick J. Sciullo","doi":"10.3138/jsp.51.4.13","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3138/jsp.51.4.13","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44613,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Scholarly Publishing","volume":"42 1","pages":"320-324"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2020-07-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75135185","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}