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
>
>
>


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