Survive or perish: Investigating the life cycle of academic journals from 1950 to 2013 using survival analysis methods

Liu, Meijun; Hu, Xiao; Wang, Yuandi; Shi, Dongbo

doi:10.1016/j.joi.2018.02.001

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“…We analyzed the data, removing all journals indicated as OA journals in the database, as a means of removing possible biases caused by the mass appearance of the so-called predatory OA journals and obtained results that were qualitatively identical, such that our results are not an artifact of that phenomenon (see S3 and S4 Data and S1–S6 Figs). We also replicated our analyses using the PubMed Central data set, which was replete with more errors and problems and is considered inferior to and less complete than the Ulrich’s data [10,11], but obtained similar results (S5 Data, S7 Fig), such that we have some independent confirmation of these patterns from a distinct data source. As such, the journal population reduction forecasted by the publishing industry as a result of the NIH policy never occurred—to the contrary: with journal births far outnumbering deaths during the period of NIH policy implementation, the biomedical journal “population” grew massively after policy implementation and presently appears to be quite healthy; numbers of papers on biomedical topics are also known to have grown dramatically in this period [7].…”

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The NIH public access policy did not harm biomedical journals

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The United States National Institutes of Health (NIH) imposed a public access policy on all publications for which the research was supported by their grants; the policy was drafted in 2004 and took effect in 2008. The policy is now 11 years old, yet no analysis has been presented to assess whether in fact this largest-scale US-based public access policy affected the vitality of the scholarly publishing enterprise, as manifested in changed mortality or natality rates of biomedical journals. We show here that implementation of the NIH policy was associated with slightly elevated mortality rates and mildly depressed natality rates of biomedical journals, but that birth rates so exceeded death rates that numbers of biomedical journals continued to rise, even in the face of the implementation of such a sweeping public access policy.

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“…Science is largely consolidated and bolstered by its dissemination through peer-reviewed academic journals, which act as vehicles for the transmission of research results and academic discussion (Fawcett & Fawcett, 1995;Gu & Blackmore, 2017;Liu et al, 2018). In the Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH) sphere, where publication patterns diverge from those of the experimental sciences, journals are also becoming increasingly influential as the main means of outreach and discussing research (Hicks, 2004;Archambault et al, 2006;Nederhof, 2006;Engels et al, 2018;Kulczycki et al, 2018Kulczycki et al, , 2020.…”

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“…In numerous European countries, national lists of publication channels support performance-based research funding systems allocating government funding to universities (Sivertsen, 2016b). They allow academics to communicate research results, determine their methodological consistency, stimulate scientific debate, and target them so that the best-suited journals can publish their work (Huang, 2016;Liu et al, 2018). Evaluators are given the opportunity to appraise professors and researchers who apply for academic promotion.…”

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Impact and visibility of Norwegian, Finnish and Spanish journals in the fields of humanities

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This article analyses the impact and visibility of scholarly journals in the humanities that are publishing in the national languages in Finland, Norway and Spain. Three types of publishers are considered: commercial publishers, scholarly society as publisher, and research organizations as publishers. Indicators of visibility and impact were obtained from Web of Science, SCOPUS, Google Metrics, Scimago Journal Rank and Journal Citation Report. The findings compiled show that in Spain the categories “History and Archaeology” and “Language and Literature” account for almost 70% of the journals analysed, while the other countries offer a more homogeneous distribution. In Finland, the scholarly society publisher is predominant, in Spain, research organization as publishers, mostly universities, have a greater weighting, while in Norway, the commercial publishers take centre stage. The results show that journals from Finland and Norway will have reduced possibilities in terms of impact and visibility, since the vernacular language appeals to a smaller readership. Conversely, the Spanish journals are more attractive for indexing in commercial databases. Distribution in open access ranges from 64 to 70% in Norwegian and Finish journals, and to 91% in Spanish journals. The existence of DOI range from 31 to 41% in Nordic journals to 60% in Spanish journals and has a more widespread bearing on the citations received in all three countries (journals with DOI and open access are cited more frequently).

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“…Because "the periodical publishing industry is not as prosperous, or its future as promising" (p. 219), what a journal has done to solve the internal and external problems including plagiarisms (Xiao-Jun et al, 2012) must be well appreciated. TJ has counteracted the findings that, among others, a cessation of journal averages three years after the launch time and that monolingual journals using foreign languages suffer much higher risk of cessation than multilingual journals and those published in native languages do (Liu et al, 2018). Furthermore, money, neither technology nor science, is the top cause of death in the journal publication (Silver, 2018).…”

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THIRTY YEARS OF TEFLIN Journal - A publication on the teaching and learning of English: A BIBLIOMETRIC PORTRAIT THROUGH THE LENS OF MICROSOFT ACADEMIC

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Mukminatien²

2021

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To examine bodies of literature from the levels of topics, regions, nations, and journals, a lot of bibliometric studies have been conducted in many fields. However, such studies are a rare undertaking in the field of English language teaching, especially at a journal level. To celebrate the TEFLIN Journal - A publication on the teaching and learning of English’s 30th anniversary, this study exhibits a bibliometric portrait of its publication, indexation, and citation from 1990 to 2019. Two pieces of free software, Publish or Perish and VOSviewer were adopted to conduct the descriptive and network analyses of bibliographic data from Microsoft Academic. In terms of 19 out of 27 metrics in Publish or Perish software, the journal’s publication and citation metrics have risen during its lifetime. The bibliographic network identifies the most productive authors, institutions, and countries along with the co-authorship pattern, type of top-cited articles, and top-used keywords. The article relatedness is also sighted in terms of the citation frequency and number of shared references. Even though the analyses were complicated by some missing articles and improper indexation, this study could still take a full-length bibliometric portrait of the journal during its 30-year journey between the commitment to competence and the quest for higher impact.

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Survive or perish: Investigating the life cycle of academic journals from 1950 to 2013 using survival analysis methods

Cited by 12 publications

References 36 publications

The NIH public access policy did not harm biomedical journals

The NIH public access policy did not harm biomedical journals

Impact and visibility of Norwegian, Finnish and Spanish journals in the fields of humanities

THIRTY YEARS OF TEFLIN Journal - A publication on the teaching and learning of English: A BIBLIOMETRIC PORTRAIT THROUGH THE LENS OF MICROSOFT ACADEMIC

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