Perceived quality and self‐identity in scholarly publishing

Abstract

The purpose of the study was to understand if and how 2 proposed facets of self-identity (work-self and careerself) and journals' perceived quality (impact, visibility, and content quality) influence and explain the intention to publish in open access (OA) or nonopen access (non-OA) journals. This study integrates attitude and identity theory within a cross-sectional survey design. The sample consists of about 1,600 researchers in Norway, and the data were collected via e-mail invitation using a digital surveying tool and analyzed using structural equation modeling techniques. We determined that perceived impact-quality increases the intention to publish non-OA, while decreasing the intention to publish OA. Content quality is only associated with non-OA journals. Perceived visibility increases the intention to publish OA, while the opposite effect is found for non-OA. Career-self salience has the strongest effect on impact-quality, while content quality is most important when work-self is salient. This research contributes to a deeper understanding about how perceived quality influences intention to publish in OA and non-OA journals, and how self-identity salience affects different facets of perceived quality in valence and strength. Findings have implications for policy development, implementation, and assessment and may contribute to improving OA adoption.

Perceções dos investigadores face ao ecossistema da Ciência Aberta

“…Parece ser uma realidade extensível a vários países e já retratada na literatura. Na Noruega, a maioria dos investigadores não está familiarizada com os diferentes métodos de publicação em acesso aberto (Moksness & Olsen, 2020). Estes avaliam as revistas onde tencionam publicar de acordo com vários critérios, sendo que o fator qualidade é determinante.…”

“…O que reforça a intenção dos investigadores em publicar em revistas de acesso aberto é a visibilidade; um artigo a que se acede, descarrega e divulga livremente tem o potencial de alcançar um público mais alargado do que aquele que tem de ser comprado (Swan, 2010;Projeto FOSTER, 2018). Mas, porque revelam ainda algum ceticismo relativamente à qualidade, ao prestígio e aos conteúdos disponibilizados em acesso aberto, dever-se-á promover quer a qualidade quer o impacto dos conteúdos em acesso aberto (Moksness & Olsen, 2020), porque os investigadores precisam equilibrar a sua dupla função de investigadores e de académicos.…”

Deficient editorial practices, perceived quality, and expedient scholarly publishing in a developing nation

“…Many researchers who lack an appropriate funding system are unable to pay the large author publication fees charged by publishers, and the number of journals with good standing but without publication fees has been diminishing rapidly. 19 This pushes these researchers to publish in local journals. However, local journals should not be undervalued.…”

Representing academic identities in email: content and structure of Automatic Signatures

“…This is probably under the covert and/or internalised control of the institution within which emails are sent out. ASs function as discursive events of self-categorisation and selfidentification which reflect in-group roles (Moksness and Olsen 2019). At the same time, some ASs are developing as sites for ratifying one's professional reputation (Radford et al 2018).…”