fair enough, when people tell you that something is impossible, it means you're probably on the right way :) good luck.
dj On Fri, Nov 2, 2012 at 12:01 PM, emijrp <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > > > -- __________________________ dr hab. Dariusz Jemielniak profesor zarządzania kierownik katedry Zarządzania Międzynarodowego i centrum badawczego CROW Akademia Leona Koźmińskiego http://www.crow.alk.edu.pl
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