how to be recognized as a quality oa journal final

HOW TO BE RECOGNIZEDAS A QUALITY

OPEN ACCESS JOURNAL

PRESENTATION AT CHINA OPEN ACCESS WEEKOCTOBER 17, 2016, BEIJING

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Presentation Overview

ASSESSING OPEN ACCESS JOURNAL QUALITYo Role of DOAJ compared with Scopus, WoS

o What is (quality) Open Accesso Quality of the journal versus Quality of the scienceo discussion of publishing criteria

oWhy the Thomson Reuters should not be used for assessing quality of journals

o methods for assessing the quality of the scienceo Peer-review, Impact Assessment

o New Forms of Impact Assessmento Article level metricso ImpactStoryo Relative Citation Scores

• D i r e c t o r y o f O p e n A c c e s s J o u r n a l s ( s t a r t e d i n 2 0 0 3 )

• C e n t r a l l y, p u b l i c l y a n d i n t e r n a t i o n a l l y a v a i l a b l e c o m m u n i t y -c u r a t e d l i s t o f h i g h q u a l i t y o p e n a c c e s s j o u r n a l t i t l e s a c r o s s a l l d i s c i p l i n e s

• P r o f e s s i o n a l s t a ff a n d r e c e n t l y i n s t a l l e d a m b a s s a d o r t e a m o f p u b l i c a t i o n s p e c i a l i s t s i n m a n y r e g i o n s o f t h e w o r l d

• I n c r e a s i n g l y u s e d b y f u n d e r s , u n i v e r s i t i e s a n d g o v e r n m e n t b o d i e s t o d e c i d e w h i c h s c i e n t i s t s / g r o u p s c a n r e c e i v e f u n d i n g• eg Science Europe (EU) requires scientists to publish in DOAJ, Scopus or WoS listed

journals for EU funded research

What is the DOAJ?

DOAJ IDRC Funded Ambassador Programme

WHAT IS A QUALITY OPEN ACCESS

JOURNAL?

• What is Quality Open Access?

• What is Quality Publishing?

• What is Quality Science?

WHAT IS QUALITY OPEN ACCESS?

• Free and (almost) unrestricted access

• Adherence to the BOAI definition

• No Embargoes

• No Hybrid Journals

• Copyright ownership clearly described

• Use of open access licensing like Creative Commons or equivalent

The BOAI Definition

Open Access is: a publishing system where all content is freely available without charge to the user or his/her institution. Users are allowed to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of the articles, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without asking prior permission from the publisher or the author.


Open Access needs:

Legal Framework for Sharing• An Open Access Statement

• Licensing conditions defining usage rights


Two Properties:• Quality Publishing

• Scientific Quality = Quality of the Articles

WHAT IS A QUALITY JOURNAL?

• The Delivery of Technical Quality

• Adherence to best Publishing Practices

WHAT IS A QUALITY PUBLISHING?

The BasicsCOPE, OASPA, WAME & DOAJ:


The Principles1. Peer review process 2. Governing Body3. Editorial team/contact 4. Author fees5. Copyright6. Identification of and dealing with allegations of research misconduct7. Ownership and management

8. Website9. Name of journal10. Conflicts of interest11. Access 12. Revenue sources13. Advertising14. Publishing schedule15. Archiving16. Direct marketing


Editorial ”quality”QUALITIY AND TRANSPARENCY OF THE

EDITORIAL PROCESS The journal must have two editors (Arts & Humanities) or an

editorial board of 5 members, all members must be easily identified and have a good reputation

Specification of the review process Editorial review, Peer Review, Blind Peer Review, Double Blind

Peer Review, Open Peer Review, Other Statements about aims & scope clearly visible Instructions to authors shall be available and easily located Screening for plagiarism? Time from submission to publication


Copyright in perspective• Intellectual property right

• Copyright

• Publishing right

• Fair use

• License (definition)

COPYRIGHT AND LICENCING

• Copyright for the author

• OR Copyright Transfer

• Licenses defining open access usage conditions


What is a license?• Licensing means to grant a third party

(anyone else except the right holder) the right to use a copyright-protected work

• A license is a permission to use a work in specific ways

• Licenses can only be granted by copyright holder

• Copyright holder can be author or publisher


• Non profit organization

• Legal framework for licenses (publications, music)

• Not patents, trademarks which are part of the intellectual property rights

CREATIVE COMMONS

CREATIVE COMMONS

The six variations of the CC Licences

• Quality Publishing

• Scientific Quality = Quality of the Articles

WHAT IS A QUALITY JOURNAL?

CONTROL OF THE SCIENTIFIC QUALITY

OPEN ACCESS JOURNAL QUALITY: DOAJ, Scopus, WoSoPublishing Criteria, Citation Analysis, Impact Factor, Citation Distribution

OPEN ACCESS ARTICLE QUALITYo Peer-review, Impact Assessment

Impact Assessment NOT the Thomson Reuters Impact Factor

New Forms of Impact Assessmento Article level metricso ImpactStoryo Relative Citation Scores

H E A D L I N E S I N , S C I E N C E , N A T U R E , T H E S C I E N T I S T, P L O S T H I S Y E A R 2 0 1 6

What is wrong with the IF?

• Weak relation with journal quality

• more than 75% of articles in a journal have much lower citations than the JIF suggests

• Biased towards English Language journals

• No relation with individual article quality

• No relation with scientist quality

• Inappropriate use for promotion, tenure, funding

WHAT IS WRONG WITH THE IF?

For publishers: Do not use if for the promotion of your journal

For authors: It is not important where you publish but what you publish

For funders / employers: Do not judge scientists on where they publish or how much they publish

TOO MUCH IS WRONG WITH THE IF

ALTMETRICSTaking into account citations, social media, conventional media (newspapers, TV, Video)

RELATIVE CITATION SCORESCitation indices adjusted for scientific field

LEIDEN MANIFESTOdoi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/062109

DORAThe San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessmentdoi: 10.1242/dmm.012955

NEW METHODS FOR IMPACT ASSESSMENT

http://www.ascb.org/dora/

San Francisco Declaration on Research

Impact

TEN PRINCIPLES

Among which6. Account for variation by field in publication and citation practices

8. the journal impact factor is published to three decimal places to avoid ties. it makes no sense to distinguishbetween journals on the basis of very small impact factor differences. Avoid false precision

LEIDEN MANIFESTO FOR RESEARCH

METRICS

Must haves:• An Open Access statement

• Comply with the BOAI definition

• A peer-review process, and describe the kind of process

• An editor/editorial board with clearly identifiable members

• Licensing and copyright information

• Aims and scope

• Published a least 5 articles per year to qualify (DOAJ criteria)

QUALITY OPEN ACCESS JOURNALS

Recommendations• Unrestricted copyright for the author• No exclusive publishing rights• No transfer of commercial rights• Clear licensing conditions• Preferably use of Creative commons licensing• Embedded licensing information with articles• Link to underlying data• No mention of IF, instead use journal citation

distribution plots

QUALITY OPEN ACCESS JOURNALS

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