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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
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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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INFRASTRUCTURE
READERSHIP
Infrastructure
Readership
Prestige
Performance
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Technical
features
of journal
Marketing
effort
Individual
subscribers
Paper
cirkulation
Institutional
subscribers
Readership
Inclusion in
indexes
Author
charges
Electronic alert
subscribers
Impact on
practitioners
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Impact on
scientists
Web
downloads
Regional and
topical fit of
readership
Citations
Net value of
submission
Impact factor
PRESTIGE
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Journal resources
and infrastructure
Subscription
price
Publisher’s
prestige
Journal prestige
Journal
ranking
PERFORMANCE
”Net value of
submission”
Service level of
journal
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Prestige of
editorial
board
CV value of
publication
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Institutional
reward
schemes
Publication delay
Scientific level
of journal
Quality of the
review process
Journal rejection
rate
Submission
rejection risk
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TABLE 1: Peer-reviewed journals in the IT in construction domain
Journal name
Automation in Construction
Computer-Aided Civil and Infrastructure Engineering1
Construction Innovation2
Electronic Journal of Information Technology in Construction
Abbreviation
Founding
year
Publisher
Articles in
2004
AIC
1992
Elsevier
57
CACIE
1985
Blackwell
35
CI
1993
Arnold
16
ITcon
1996
CIB
27
32
International Journal of Architectural Computing
IJAC
2003
MultiScience
International Journal of Design Computing
IJDC
1997
University
of Sydney
3
IT in architecture, engineering and construction3
IT-AEC
1999
Millpress
264
JCCE
1987
ASCE
39
Journal of Computing in Civil Engineering
Total number of articles
235
In the following these journals are very briefly introduced.
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Overlap between editorial boards
ITcon (56)
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construction
Innovation (28)
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Automation in
Construction (21)
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3 3 ,3
2 6 ,1
2 1 ,3
1 4 ,1
1 0 ,6
8 ,6
7 ,1
0 ,0
EC A MC A C IE C ME
CI
A IC
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I JA C J C C E I tc on I JD C
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I T c on
6 ,7
CI
18
A IC
1 8 ,7
I E E E T rans .
0
2 1 ,8
5
10
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Acceptance rates
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ITcon
CME
JCCE
ALPSP journals
DOAJ
DOAJ Excluding
BiomedCentral
and ISP journals
0,55
0,51
0,47
0,42
0,64
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
100
90
80
# downloads per month
70
60
50
40
30
20
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months since publication of paper
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Dowloads in one month
100
90
80
# of downloads
70
60
50
40
30
20
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1
5
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13
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21
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29
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37
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53
57
61
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97 101 105 109 113 117 121
ITcon paper
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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
Open access from the start
X
X
X
X
partially
X
Open access with a delay
Author retains copyright
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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 Reengineered: 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
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