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more on Scholarly Journals' Premier Status Is Diluted by Web
From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Mon, 23 May 2005 18:51:01 -0400
Begin forwarded message: From: Dennis Allison <allison () shasta stanford edu> Date: May 23, 2005 6:20:56 PM EDT To: David Farber <dave () farber net> Cc: Ip ip <ip () v2 listbox com>Subject: Re: [IP] more on Scholarly Journals' Premier Status Is Diluted by Web
On Mon, 23 May 2005, Steve Crocker wrote (in part):
The tenure review process plays a subtle but critical role in retardingthe creation and rise of new peer-reviewed journals that might operate on an entirely different business model. Tenure (and other academic advancement) committees are strongly geared toward name brand recognition when examining a professor's publication list. Youngprofessors thus tend to prefer the established journals even if there is substantial delay in getting published and higher cost to the potentialreaders.
When I was involved with IEEE Computer Society Magazines and Journals, there was significant pressure to accept and publish papers in research journals that did not contribute any significant new knowledge or understanding but did meet our standards of exposition. There was also strong pressure to create new journals and to increase the number of publications and pages so that we could publish the plethora of articlessubmitted. Presumably much of this pressure was because of the need for
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