This study proposes a theoretical model of journal selection criteria by consolidating and valida... more This study proposes a theoretical model of journal selection criteria by consolidating and validating the previously identified elements that influence authors' choice of publication venue. For the study, we surveyed 490 authors who published their work in library and information science journals and performed an exploratory factor analysis. The analysis identified five underlying components of journal selection criteria consisting of 15 items, which were labelled prestige, readership, peer review, infrastructure, and performance. The five components were positively related to each other, and peer review was shown as the most important component in choosing a publication venue, followed by readership, prestige, infrastructure, and performance. The results of this study will help increase the understanding of authors' publishing behaviours and will help journal publishers and editors improve their journals by developing strategies that attract better‐quality manuscripts.
This study explores a method by which to utilize the suffixes of terms in a hybrid approach to cl... more This study explores a method by which to utilize the suffixes of terms in a hybrid approach to classification, which integrate the strengths of both manual and automatic classification methods. Terms from two lexical bases of different sizes from the same domain are organized according to their suffixes. Although this approach could not usefully organize the majority of terms from either lexical base, the suffix heuristic shows promise as one component of a method for hybrid classification. Categories and Subject Descriptors
Journal of Information Science Theory and Practice, 2019
Due to the competitive nature of journal publishing, editorial leadership has become an increasin... more Due to the competitive nature of journal publishing, editorial leadership has become an increasingly important issue on many editorial teams. This study aimed to compare the major and non-Western international journals in library and information science and reveal the differences between them. To conduct this study, journals indexed by Scopus and Web of Science were analyzed in terms of gender, professional position and rank, institutions, and the iSchool status of the editorial leaders' institutions. The most notable results were the following: a) As a whole, both types of journals lacked true internationalization. Editorial leaders of major journals tended to be from Western countries, whereas editorial leaders of non-Western journals tended to be from non-Western countries; b) Most non-Western journals tended to appoint editorial leaders from the same country as the publisher's country; and c) Almost all editorial leaders of non-Western journals were from various non-West...
Journal of Information Science Theory and Practice, 2018
Research performance evaluation in Korean universities follows strict guidelines that specify sco... more Research performance evaluation in Korean universities follows strict guidelines that specify scoring systems for publication venue categories and formulas for co-authorship credit allocation. To find out how the standards differ across universities and how they differ from bibliometric research evaluation measures, this study analyzed 25 standards from major Korean universities and rankings produced by applying standards and bibliometric measures such as publication and citation counts, normalized impact score, and h-index to the publication data of 195 tenure-track professors of library and information science departments in 35 Korean universities. The study also introduced a novel impact score normalization method to refine the methodology from prior studies. The results showed the university standards to be mostly similar to one another but quite different from citation-driven measures, which suggests the standards are not quite successful in quantifying the quality of research ...
This study proposes a theoretical model of journal selection criteria by consolidating and valida... more This study proposes a theoretical model of journal selection criteria by consolidating and validating the previously identified elements that influence authors' choice of publication venue. For the study, we surveyed 490 authors who published their work in library and information science journals and performed an exploratory factor analysis. The analysis identified five underlying components of journal selection criteria consisting of 15 items, which were labelled prestige, readership, peer review, infrastructure, and performance. The five components were positively related to each other, and peer review was shown as the most important component in choosing a publication venue, followed by readership, prestige, infrastructure, and performance. The results of this study will help increase the understanding of authors' publishing behaviours and will help journal publishers and editors improve their journals by developing strategies that attract better‐quality manuscripts.
This study explores a method by which to utilize the suffixes of terms in a hybrid approach to cl... more This study explores a method by which to utilize the suffixes of terms in a hybrid approach to classification, which integrate the strengths of both manual and automatic classification methods. Terms from two lexical bases of different sizes from the same domain are organized according to their suffixes. Although this approach could not usefully organize the majority of terms from either lexical base, the suffix heuristic shows promise as one component of a method for hybrid classification. Categories and Subject Descriptors
Journal of Information Science Theory and Practice, 2019
Due to the competitive nature of journal publishing, editorial leadership has become an increasin... more Due to the competitive nature of journal publishing, editorial leadership has become an increasingly important issue on many editorial teams. This study aimed to compare the major and non-Western international journals in library and information science and reveal the differences between them. To conduct this study, journals indexed by Scopus and Web of Science were analyzed in terms of gender, professional position and rank, institutions, and the iSchool status of the editorial leaders' institutions. The most notable results were the following: a) As a whole, both types of journals lacked true internationalization. Editorial leaders of major journals tended to be from Western countries, whereas editorial leaders of non-Western journals tended to be from non-Western countries; b) Most non-Western journals tended to appoint editorial leaders from the same country as the publisher's country; and c) Almost all editorial leaders of non-Western journals were from various non-West...
Journal of Information Science Theory and Practice, 2018
Research performance evaluation in Korean universities follows strict guidelines that specify sco... more Research performance evaluation in Korean universities follows strict guidelines that specify scoring systems for publication venue categories and formulas for co-authorship credit allocation. To find out how the standards differ across universities and how they differ from bibliometric research evaluation measures, this study analyzed 25 standards from major Korean universities and rankings produced by applying standards and bibliometric measures such as publication and citation counts, normalized impact score, and h-index to the publication data of 195 tenure-track professors of library and information science departments in 35 Korean universities. The study also introduced a novel impact score normalization method to refine the methodology from prior studies. The results showed the university standards to be mostly similar to one another but quite different from citation-driven measures, which suggests the standards are not quite successful in quantifying the quality of research ...
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