Great Dariusz : ) I will launch the Journal of Wikis project and I will learn a lot. It won't be just a journal in the old sense, it will be something new.
I remember when people on this mailing list talked during years about a way to compile wiki literature, but no advances were done. Until I decided to create WikiPapers. I don't care about making mistakes, I care about discussing these topics in a loop for years. 2012/11/2 Dariusz Jemielniak <[email protected]> > Not my case, but I understand that there are people in that situation. >> This story was the same in 2001, when people thought that only an >> expert-written encyclopedia with very rigid methods would be successful. >> > > Good for you, but it is somewhat irrelevant. I'd speculate that possibly > even most of the academic journals' production is done by people who do > have to care where they publish. Per comparing the situation to Wikipedia > in 2001, I want to firmly state that oranges are much better than apples. > > >> Entering the journal rankings is based on citation numbers, right? I did >> this suggest thinking on the valuable researchers in this list, which may >> be interested in publishing/peer-reviewing stuff in the journal. Won't you >> cite that papers? >> > > The JCR journal ranking, which so far is the only one that matters (in > spite of its major flaws, methodological issues, etc.), bases on the number > of citations counted ONLY in other journals already listed in it. > > But there are also threshold requirements to be even considered for JCR > ranking, and obviously a double-blind peer reviews is a must. For practical > reasons of indexing, paper redistribution, etc., PDFs and numbered pages > also make life of a person who wants to cite a paper much easier. > > While I support your idea in principle, I think that it requires much more > effort, planning, and understanding of how academic publishing and career > paths actually work, than in the concept of "all we need is wiki". > > cheers, > > dj > -- Emilio J. Rodríguez-Posada http://LibreFind.org - The wiki search engine
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