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Björk 2006 1
Scientific publishing today
Bo-Christer Björk
Nordic Doctoral Seminar 2006
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Effects of Internet
• A lot of the stuff is electronic• Also revenue models are changing
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Open Access
• Can be financed in many ways• Open Source like• Author payments• Funders pay• Advertising
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Why benchmarking
• Journals can be seen as service providers to authors
• Often authors base their decision where to submit on very incomplete information
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”Net value of submission”
• Infrastructure• Readership• Prestige• Performance
INFRASTRUCTURE
CV value of publication
Net value of submission
Service level of journal
Technicalfeaturesof journal
Authorcharges
Journal resourcesand infrastructure
Publication delay
Quality of the review process
Submissionrejection risk
Subscriptionprice
Marketing effort
Inclusion in indexes
Individualsubscribers
Institutionalsubscribers Readership
Web downloads
Impact factor
Journal prestige
Journal ranking
Publisher’sprestige
Regional and topical fit of readership
Electronic alertsubscribers
Impact on practitioners
Impact on scientists
Scientific levelof journal
Journal rejectionrate
READERSHIP
PRESTIGE
Citations
Institutionalrewardschemes
PERFORMANCE
Papercirkulation
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Prestige of editorialboard
INFRASTRUCTURE
CV value of publication
Net value of submission
Service level of journal
Technicalfeaturesof journal
Authorcharges
Journal resourcesand infrastructure
Publication delay
Quality of the review process
Submissionrejection risk
Subscriptionprice
Marketing effort
Inclusion in indexes
Individualsubscribers
Institutionalsubscribers Readership
Web downloads
Impact factor
Journal prestige
Journal ranking
Publisher’sprestige
Regional and topical fit of readership
Electronic alertsubscribers
Impact on practitioners
Impact on scientists
Scientific levelof journal
Journal rejectionrate
READERSHIP
PRESTIGE
Citations
Institutionalrewardschemes
PERFORMANCE
Papercirkulation
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Prestige of editorialboard
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TABLE 1: Peer-reviewed journals in the IT in construction domain
Journal name Abbreviation Founding
year Publisher
Articles in
2004
Automation in Construction
AIC 1992 Elsevier 57
Computer-Aided Civil and Infrastructure Engineering1 CACIE 1985 Blackwell 35
Construction Innovation2
CI 1993 Arnold 16
Electronic Journal of Information Technology in Construction ITcon 1996 CIB 27
International Journal of Architectural Computing IJAC 2003 Multi-
Science 32
International Journal of Design Computing IJDC 1997 University
of Sydney
3
IT in architecture, engineering and construction3 IT-AEC 1999 Millpress 264
Journal of Computing in Civil Engineering
JCCE 1987 ASCE 39
Total number of articles
235
In the following these journals are very briefly introduced.
1 Previously known as Microcomputers in Civil Engineering 2 Previously known as International Journal of Construction Information Technology 3 Previously known as Computer Integrated Design and Construction 4 Since the journal stopped publishing in mid 2004 the Figure is from 2003
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Overlap between editorial boardsITcon (56)
constructionInnovation (28)
Automation in Construction (21)
42
17
15
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33,3
26,1
21,3
14,1
10,68,6
7,1
0,0 0,0
ECAM CACIE CME CI AIC IJAC JCCE Itcon IJDC
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21,8
18,7
18
6,7
0 5 10 15 20 25
IEEE Trans.
AIC
CI
ITcon
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Acceptance rates
• ITcon 0,55• CME 0,51• JCCE 0,47• ALPSP journals 0,42• DOAJ 0,64• DOAJ Excluding
BiomedCentral and ISP journals 0,55
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Table 3. Geographic Spread of Authors (%) and Total Number of Authors and Articles per Journal*
ITcon CI JCCE AIC CACIE Percentage of
authorships
North America 20,2 13,7 66,7 21,4 45,8 37,5%
South America 0 0 0,2 0 0 0,1%
Africa 1 0 0,7 0 0 0,3%
Great Britain 25,3 24 4,5 14,7 3 12,1%
Central Europe 15,8 5,1 4 7,5 8,7 8,1%
Northern Europe 21,5 1,1 0 0,3 1,5 4,2%
South & East Europe 6,4 1,7 1,4 2 7,2 3,8%
Asia 8,4 33,2 20,9 48,9 32,1 29,5%
Australia & Oceania 1,4 21,2 1,6 5,2 1,7 4,5%
Total number of authorships 287 175 425 410 402 100,0%
Total number of articles (N=768) 107 69 167 274 169
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# average number of downloads since publication
0
10
20
30
40
50
60
70
80
90
100
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26
months since publication of paper
# downloads per month
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Dowloads in one month
0
10
20
30
40
50
60
70
80
90
100
1 5 9 13 17 21 25 29 33 37 41 45 49 53 57 61 65 69 73 77 81 85 89 93 97 101 105 109 113 117 121
ITcon paper
# of downloads
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Number of downloads vs. months on-line
0
5
10
15
20
25
30
35
40
0 200 400 600 800 1000 1200 1400 1600
Number of downloads
Months on-line
Amor et al 2002
Special issue on eWork and eBusiness 2003
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TABLE 6: Copyright policies of a select number of journals
AIC CACIE CI ITcon IJAC1 IJDC JCCE2 LCJ3
Does not allow posting
Allows preprint only
Allows postprint as personal
version X X
Allows posting of copy of
published PDF
Allows any of the above but
with a delay X
Open access from the start
X X
X
Open access with a delay
Author retains copyright
X partially
1 Status unclear, see http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo.php 2 Status unclear, see http://www.pubs.asce.org/journals/submisscp.html 3 LCJ stands for Lean Construction Journal <http://www.leanconstructionjournal.org/>
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Futher work
• The method is currently being applied to e-commerce journals
• Should be tested for areas where there are open access alternatives (biomedicine?)
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Conference publishing
• Most bigger conferences are run using electronic submission and reviewing systems
• Some home made• Some Open Source• Some commercial
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Conference
• Some conferences leave the material open access
• Some do CD-ROM:s• Some have external publishers
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Cases
• CIB W78 (OA)• ECPPM• COMBINING FORCES - Advancing
Facilities Management and Construction through Innovation June 13-16, 2005 Helsinki
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REFERENCES
Björk, Bo-Christer, Turk, Ziga, Holmström, Jonas. Benchmarking scientific journals from the submitting author’s viewpoint. Accepted for Publication, Learned Publishing, Vol 19 No. 2, April 2006
Björk, Bo-Christer, Turk, Ziga, Holmström, Jonas. The Scholarly Journal Re-
engineered: A Case Study of an Open Access Journal in Construction IT, Electronic Journal of Information Technology in Construction, ITcon, Vol. 10, 2005, pp.349-371,http://www.itcon.org/
Kaufman-Wills Group, The facts about Open Access, ALPSP, 2005