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Choosing The Appropriate Medium For Your Publication: Journal Selection Tactics
Choosing The Appropriate Medium For Your Publication: Journal Selection Tactics
Overview
Journal Types
Assessing Journal Characteristics
Comparative Class Analyses
Conclusions
Liberti, Casebeer et al: 64th Annual AMWA Conference, Oct 2004, St. Louis MO
Journal Types
Trade
Peer-reviewed
Print
Online
Open-access
Society Sponsored
Commissioned article journals
Open to Rapid
Primary
Your
Comms Research
Ideas
Trade
Print/ Online
Open Access
Commission
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Reviews
Suppls
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Assessing Journal
Characteristics
Sponsorship
Society-sponsored
Commercial published
Partnership of society/academia commercial
publisher
Editorial Board
Does one exist?
What is its role?
How often do members changes?
Are there potential conflicts of interest?
Reach/Readership/Audience
Does the journal reach the desired audience?
By what measure(s) is this determined?
Quality of audience
Quantity of audience
http://www.ulrichsweb.com/ulrichsweb/
Quality Scores
What metrics can be used to measure the quality
and relevance of information in a journal?
Quality Scores
Faculty of 1000 (www.f1000medicine.com)
Articles are identified and scored by Faculty Members
Score 3,6,9 (recommend, must read, exceptional)
Consistency, clinical relevance?
Quality Scores
READER Scoring system
Relevance- to my practice
Education influence on behavior
Applicability could it be used in practice?
Discrimination- Quality of methodology and presentation
Evaluation- scoring using above criteria
Reaction- Four categories
Classic paper, immediate impact
Important enough to be filed
Of possible interest
Ignore
MacAuley D: Br J Gen Pract. 1994 Feb;44(379):83-5
Quality Scores
Thomson Message Mapping SystemSM (TMMS)
Scores based on
Science - Source Score
Quality JIF
Evidence Message Factor
Format Letter, Brief Comm, Primary Article
http://www.thomsonreuters.com/products_services/scientific1/tmms
The Eigenfactor
http://www.eigenfactor.org/whyeigenfactor.htm
Journal Price
http://www.eigenfactor.org/whyeigenfactor.htm
http://www.eigenfactor.org/whyeigenfactor.htm
Conclusions
Journal selection is important with respect to how
readers perceive published information
Journal selection criteria are subject to
interpretation
No single metric is capable of identifying the right
journal for a submission