Bolashak - Week 9 - On Journals 15Apr25

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On Scholarly Publishing




Bill Cope




Bolashak Seminar, 15 April 2025

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Where and How to Publish? Wherever, it’s good to have: Image Image

Repositories

“Grey” Reports

Journals

Books

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Repositories Image Image

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Image Journals

Subscription-based

Open Access

Hybrid



But slow, expensive, network effects and there’s always reviewer 2…

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Image Peer Review

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Two-way anonymous

One-way anonymous

Open

Post-publication

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Shades of Open Access Image

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Publishing Agreements

© Assignment

© License

CC BY: Creative Commons Attribution License.
CC BY-NC: Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial License.
CC BY-NC-ND: Creative Commons Attribution Non-commercial No-Derivatives License.
CC BY-ND: Creative Commons Attribution No-Derivatives License

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Image Monographs/Books

Multiply Authored, Anthologies
Proposals: overview, outline of chapters, competing volumes, bionotes
Advantages: commitment to publish
Disadvantages: slow, less visibility in citation systems

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Image New Media Journals

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Journal of Visualized Experiments

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Here comes AI … Image

AI Generated Content


AI Reviews

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Image Bibliometrics

Follow the gossip!

Beware of network effects!



H-index: A researcher has an index h if h of their publications have each been cited at least h times, and the other publications have no more than h citations each.



i10-index: total count of publications meeting the 10-citation threshold.



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Journal Impact Factor

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