{"title":"Making journals more international: Language subject differences and impact performance","authors":"Jing Li, Xue Yang, Xiaoli Lu, Dengsheng Wu","doi":"10.1002/leap.1567","DOIUrl":"10.1002/leap.1567","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This study created a comprehensive Country Diversity Score (CDS) index to measure the degree of journal internationality from a diversity perspective, based on publishing authors' affiliation countries. It calculates CDS values and analyses their distribution across countries, publication languages, disciplines, subjects, and journal impact factor (JIF) quartiles for 11,481 journals, and addresses the correlation between CDS and JIF. Empirical studies indicate that journals with authors evenly distributed across more countries are more likely to obtain a higher CDS value. English publications have a relatively high CDS worldwide, and the non-English publications of a country have a lower CDS than its English-language publications. In addition, this study found a positive correlation between journal internationality and JIF in terms of the geographical distribution of publishing authors. Implications and recommendations for improving geographical authorship diversity, particularly in the context of internationalization, are discussed.</p>","PeriodicalId":51636,"journal":{"name":"Learned Publishing","volume":"36 4","pages":"596-618"},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2023-08-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43324147","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ishfaq Ahmad Palla, Mangkhollen Singson, S. Thiyagarajan
{"title":"Systematic examination of post- and pre-citation of Indian-authored retracted papers","authors":"Ishfaq Ahmad Palla, Mangkhollen Singson, S. Thiyagarajan","doi":"10.1002/leap.1572","DOIUrl":"10.1002/leap.1572","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Retracted articles by Indian scholars have received significant attention in recent times. However, no comprehensive study has been conducted to analyse the citations of retracted papers authored by Indian researchers. This study aimed to assess the citations to retracted works published between 2001 and 2020 pre- and post-retraction. The study found that there was an increase in retractions over time, with empirical data suggesting that the number of retractions has increased significantly, from 72 papers between 2001 and 2010 to 365 papers between 2011 and 2020. Duplication (<i>n</i> = 128) and plagiarism (<i>n</i> = 119) were the primary reasons for retraction. Notably, 90% of the retracted articles continued to receive citations after retraction. Among the retracted papers, eight received more than 50 post-retraction citations, 39 received 20 to 50 citations, 347 received one to 19 citations, and 43 were not cited at all post-retraction. There was an overall 8% decrease in citations after retraction. Retractions were observed across journals of varying impact factor, with a higher number of retractions observed in journals with an impact factor of less than 5 (<i>n</i> = 286; 65%). Furthermore, smaller research teams of two to five authors accounted for 72% of the total retractions.</p>","PeriodicalId":51636,"journal":{"name":"Learned Publishing","volume":"36 4","pages":"638-650"},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2023-08-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41612789","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A multidimensional journal evaluation framework based on the Pareto-dominated set measured by the Manhattan distance","authors":"Xinxin Xu, Ziqiang Zeng, Yurui Chang","doi":"10.1002/leap.1571","DOIUrl":"10.1002/leap.1571","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Journal evaluation is a multifaceted issue, and multidimensional information cannot be conflated into one metric due to the inability of a single indicator to reflect the quality of a journal. The goal of this paper is to develop a multidimensional journal evaluation framework based on the Pareto-dominated set through integrating information measured by the Manhattan distance related to article performance, academic communities, and publishing platforms. This paper identifies 29 related indexes to form a three-dimensional (3D) journal evaluation framework with metrics involving stakeholders in journal publication. To reduce multicollinearity among related indexes, a factor analysis-based entropy weight method is proposed to integrate the multidimensional information into five aggregated indicators and then transform them into a 3D-weighted influence factor coordinate system. A journal evaluation framework is defined based on the Pareto-dominated set of a journal in the 3D-coordinate system measured by the Manhattan distance to assess journal impact. A case study has been implemented based on 124 journals selected from the “Statistics & Probability” category in the 2019 Journal Citation Report to demonstrate the validity of the proposed method.</p>","PeriodicalId":51636,"journal":{"name":"Learned Publishing","volume":"36 4","pages":"619-637"},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2023-08-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49105966","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The rise of a mega-journal in public health publishing","authors":"Dennis M. Gorman","doi":"10.1002/leap.1566","DOIUrl":"10.1002/leap.1566","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>\u0000 </p><ul>\u0000 \u0000 <li>In recent years, public health has experienced a rapid increase in articles produced by the <i>International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health</i>.</li>\u0000 \u0000 <li>The journal now accounts for around 15% of the documents in the Scimago Journal and Country Rank <i>Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health</i> category.</li>\u0000 \u0000 <li>The journal's success in attracting authors appears to reside in its ability to rapidly publish manuscripts after brief review.</li>\u0000 \u0000 <li>Acceptance rates also appear to be unaffected by the volume of submissions.</li>\u0000 \u0000 <li>An academic publishing process focused primarily on speed provides no guarantee of quality, especially if the emphasis is on sheer volume of papers produced.</li>\u0000 \u0000 <li>This has the potential to fundamentally weaken the knowledge base of public health which, in turn, will undermine public health practice and policy.</li>\u0000 </ul>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":51636,"journal":{"name":"Learned Publishing","volume":"36 4","pages":"712-719"},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2023-08-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41968594","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Artificial intelligence to support publishing and peer review: A summary and review","authors":"Kayvan Kousha, Mike Thelwall","doi":"10.1002/leap.1570","DOIUrl":"10.1002/leap.1570","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Technology is being developed to support the peer review processes of journals, conferences, funders, universities, and national research evaluations. This literature and software summary discusses the partial or complete automation of several publishing-related tasks: suggesting appropriate journals for an article, providing quality control for submitted papers, finding suitable reviewers for submitted papers or grant proposals, reviewing, and review evaluation. It also discusses attempts to estimate article quality from peer review text and scores as well as from post-publication scores but not from bibliometric data. The literature and existing examples of working technology show that automation is useful for helping to find reviewers and there is good evidence that it can sometimes help with initial quality control of submitted manuscripts. Much other software supporting publishing and editorial work exists and is being used, but without published academic evaluations of its efficacy. The value of artificial intelligence (AI) to support reviewing has not been clearly demonstrated yet, however. Finally, whilst peer review text and scores can theoretically have value for post-publication research assessment, it is not yet widely enough available to be a practical evidence source for systematic automation.</p>","PeriodicalId":51636,"journal":{"name":"Learned Publishing","volume":"37 1","pages":"4-12"},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2023-08-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/leap.1570","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47469677","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Jesús Segarra-Saavedra, Tatiana Hidalgo-Marí, Victoria Tur-Viñes
{"title":"Editorial time management: Peer review dates and other key dates of Spanish Communication journals","authors":"Jesús Segarra-Saavedra, Tatiana Hidalgo-Marí, Victoria Tur-Viñes","doi":"10.1002/leap.1569","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/leap.1569","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The main objective of this study was to identify editorial practices related to time management in Spanish Communication journals and determine whether their time management is homogeneous, as well as to evaluate which journals are more agile, discover the differences between general and special issues, and identify practices that could streamline the publication process. To this end, we worked with an exploratory-type methodology focused on content analysis. The sample analysed included 1,581 articles published in 2021 by the 62 Communication journals included in the <i>Índice Dialnet de Revistas</i> (IDR) 2020, differentiating between those published in general and special issues, with the aim of focusing attention on the time elapsed from when journals receive articles until their final publication. The results reveal little homogeneity in policies regarding information on dates and confirms average times of more than 6 months for the duration of the process, with the publication process for special issues being more agile. The strength of this work lies in the demonstration of the need to work on common policies that enable the publication process to be streamlined while accelerating the availability of research results for the benefit of academia as well as society.</p>","PeriodicalId":51636,"journal":{"name":"Learned Publishing","volume":"36 4","pages":"533-542"},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2023-08-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/leap.1569","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50117791","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"There is no such thing as a predatory journal","authors":"Mike Downes","doi":"10.1002/leap.1568","DOIUrl":"10.1002/leap.1568","url":null,"abstract":"A journal is inanimate and incapable of predation, hence there is no such thing as a predatory journal. The predators are the publishing company CEOs, journal owners and other complicit people. Those committing fraud and identity theft should be prosecuted. Less time and effort should be spent on scholarly investigations. More time and effort should now be devoted to prosecutions.","PeriodicalId":51636,"journal":{"name":"Learned Publishing","volume":"36 4","pages":"709-711"},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2023-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46302064","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Josep M. Argilés-Bosch, Diego Ravenda, Josep Garcia-Blandon
{"title":"Empirical analysis of factors influencing delay in article acceptance in accounting journals","authors":"Josep M. Argilés-Bosch, Diego Ravenda, Josep Garcia-Blandon","doi":"10.1002/leap.1564","DOIUrl":"10.1002/leap.1564","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Using a sample of articles published in top accounting journals, we estimate a multivariate model and find empirical evidence of factors influencing delay in article acceptance. Acceptance delay is measured as the time from article submission to acceptance. We find that article length and journal workload are significantly and positively associated with acceptance delay, whereas the distance to historical aspirations in terms of journal impact factor, top corresponding authors and affiliations, as well as corresponding author affiliation with institutions in the USA or the Netherlands, are significantly and negatively associated with acceptance delay. We also find significant differences in acceptance delays related to specific journal procedures and editorial policies. Finally, we observe that acceptance delay increases over time.</p>","PeriodicalId":51636,"journal":{"name":"Learned Publishing","volume":"36 4","pages":"517-532"},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2023-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/leap.1564","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48187342","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Using online machine translation in international scholarly writing and publishing: A longitudinal case of a Chinese engineering scholar","authors":"Cuiying Zou, Wei Gong, Ping Li","doi":"10.1002/leap.1565","DOIUrl":"10.1002/leap.1565","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Scholars who use English as an additional language (EAL) worldwide are under increasing pressure to write and publish in English due to the pervasive publish-or-perish culture and the growing dominance of English in academia. While previous studies have focused either on textual differences between EAL scholars' writing and native writers', or explored the difficulties EAL scholars meet and strategies they employ in the process, this paper examines a longitudinal case of a Chinese engineering scholar using online machine translation (MT) to support his academic writing and publishing in English. Drawing from the technology acceptance model as the theoretical background, this study shows that online MT can be a crucial support for scholars with limited English proficiency in the process of preparing a manuscript, submitting it and communicating with editors and reviewers. Frequently occurring problems in machine-translated academic texts include improper use of technical terms, use of informal language and the inclusion of grammatical mistakes. However, in the last decade, online MT has made great improvements in academic translation. We believe these findings can empower EAL scholars to effectively use online MT in academic English writing and inspire educators to help novice scholars mobilize various high-tech tools such as online MT to support their writing and international publishing.</p>","PeriodicalId":51636,"journal":{"name":"Learned Publishing","volume":"36 4","pages":"585-595"},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2023-07-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41655724","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Tips for writing plain language summaries of medical journal publications","authors":"Ju Wen, Lan Yi","doi":"10.1002/leap.1563","DOIUrl":"10.1002/leap.1563","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>\u0000 </p><ul>\u0000 \u0000 <li>Plain language summaries make scientific papers readable to the general public.</li>\u0000 \u0000 <li>As researchers are accustomed to communicate in technical language, writing plain language summaries may be a challenging task.</li>\u0000 \u0000 <li>We offer specific suggestions to guide researchers in developing plain language summaries.</li>\u0000 </ul>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":51636,"journal":{"name":"Learned Publishing","volume":"36 4","pages":"720-725"},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2023-07-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49023657","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}