Reputation Factor in Economic Publishing
Reputation Factor in Economic PublishingDaniel Scott, Founder and Director of Social Sciences Directory and member of the Open Knowledge Foundation OKFN, sets a guideline by listing the next four steps to overcome reputation:
- (…) Who needs journals? What you want is a large collection of articles that are well indexed and easily searchable, and freely available. (…) It will increase usage and reduce cost-per-download (…) whilst helping to increase citation and impact.
- Ensure quality control of peer review by setting guidelines and adhering to them.
- De-couple the link between publishing and tenure & department funding.
- (…) University administrators need to take the bold decision to change, to pick an end date as a ‘cut off’ after which they will publicly state that they are switching to new policies in support of OA. (…) Editors, authors and reviewers will be encouraged to offer their services elsewhere, which will in turn rapidly build the reputation of new publications.