One idea would be to appoint one or several volunteer editor(s). They
could ensure all the formal and administrative aspects of the journal:
receiving and anonymizing the propositions, publishing them on the
wiki, editing the final Wiki and PDF versions, keep in touch with ISI
and other evaluation system and so on…
@emirjp : well you can already count me in :)
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
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