[GOAL] Re: GOAL Digest, Vol 28, Issue 16

Bosman, J.M. j.bosman at uu.nl
Wed Mar 26 11:10:48 GMT 2014 

Miguel,

That could be an interesting discussion. Is PLOS an US-American jornal? Are Hindawi journals Egyptian and Copernicus journals German? What defines the nationality of the journal? Seat of its publisher's office? Affiliation of the editorial board? Affliation of its papers' authors? And what would one do with that information? I think that in the context of Open Access journals nationality based on location of the publishers office or editor's residence is all too often misused to grossly dismiss journals as low quality because they are Nigerian, Indian or Bulgarian.

Jeroen


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From: goal-bounces at eprints.org [mailto:goal-bounces at eprints.org] On Behalf Of MIGUEL ERNESTO NAVAS FERNANDEZ
Sent: woensdag 26 maart 2014 10:28
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Subject: [GOAL] Re: GOAL Digest, Vol 28, Issue 16

Hello,

I do think that country of publication is important, it could be related to academic research.

Have you tried contacting DOAJ? They use to be quite dilligent.

Miguel Navas-Fernández
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Hi Denny,

To me nationality of a journal is unimportant, not to say a useless concept (at least in assessing or using an online journal) . Ivyspring is a company registered in Australia and apparently has some sort of office in 1 market Street Sydney.  Some of its OA journals are included in JCR and Scopus, as well as PMC. The editorial boards of its journals are predominantly occupied by US affiliated researchers.

Jeroen

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From: goal-bounces at eprints.org [mailto:goal-bounces at eprints.org] On Behalf Of Danny Kingsley
Sent: dinsdag 25 maart 2014 5:46
To: 'goal at eprints.org'
Subject: [GOAL] Question why journals in DOAJ are being listed as 'Australian'

Hello all,

I recently looked at the DOAJ list of Australian journals to determine how many Australian OA journals charge an APC. Of the list of 115 journals on the DOAJ, 12 charge an APC.

However on investigation seven of these 12 do not appear to be Australian journals at all.

There is no definitive list of Australian OA journals - the AOASG page http://aoasg.org.au/open-access-in-action/australian-oa-journals/ lists 150  (compared to the smaller DOAJ list) and before I investigated this it did not include the five genuinely OA Australian journals that charge an APC.

My questions are:

*         Does anyone know why these journals would be appearing on DOAJ as 'Australian'?

*         Five of them are published by Ivyspring International Publishers - does anyone know anything about this publisher?

Thanks

Danny


Journal

Publisher

APC

Notes

Journal of Genomics<http://www.jgenomics.com/>

Ivyspring International Publisher

No publication charge during the current promotional period of this journal

Not published in Australia and only one Australian listed in the Editorial Board.

Theranostics<http://www.thno.org/>

Ivyspring International Publisher

$100AUD

Not published in Australia and there are no Australians listed in the Editorial Board

International Journal of Electronics, Engineering and Computer Systems<http://www.irphouse.com/elect/ijece.htm>

International Research Publication House

$150USD

Not published in Australia and there are no Australians listed in the Editorial Board

Asian Journal of Crop Science<http://scialert.net/current.php?issn=1994-7879>

Asian Network for Scientific Information

$370AUD

There is no direct website for the journal and it is difficult to determine the countries the Editorial Board come from

Journal of Cancer<http://www.jcancer.org/>

Ivyspring International Publisher

$1100AUD

Not published in Australia and only one Australian listed in the Editorial Board.

International Journal of Biological Sciences<http://www.ijbs.com/>

Ivyspring International Publisher

$1450AUD

Not published in Australia and only two Australians listed in the Editorial Board.

International Journal of Medical Sciences<http://www.medsci.org/>

Ivyspring International Publisher

$1450AUD

Not published in Australia and only two Australians listed in the Editorial Board.




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