Nice post, Kerry. Let me add that the citation rates are calculated using the cites in reputated journals already indexed ...
2012/11/8 Kerry Raymond <[email protected]> > Actually the reputation of journals is usually derived from its impact > factor**** > > ** ** > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impact_factor**** > > ** ** > > which is all about citation rates rather than acceptance/rejection rates.* > *** > > ** ** > > Acceptance rates are sometimes used for newer journals as citation rates > aren’t available. But it doesn’t follow that a new journal must reject > reasonable papers in order to achieve some desired acceptance rate. A new > journal (properly advertised) will probably attract a lot of papers that > have been rejected elsewhere so you probably end up with plenty of > worthy-of-rejection material. **** > > ** ** > > There is no way to get an immediate “great reputation” for a new journal. > But I think a clear focus on topic, a hard-working international editorial > team, and a firm but fair reviewing process and reviewers will yield > good-quality papers and will attract more good quality papers in response* > *** > > ** ** > > Kerry**** > > ** ** > > ** ** > ------------------------------ > > *From:* [email protected] [mailto: > [email protected]] *On Behalf Of *Aaron Halfaker > *Sent:* Friday, 9 November 2012 1:51 AM > *To:* Research into Wikimedia content and communities > *Subject:* Re: [Wiki-research-l] Wiki Research Journal? - Why?**** > > ** ** > > "Highly rated" is an interesting property. One of the ways that a > publication venue becomes highly rated is by being highly restrictive. In > fact, the primary measurement of the quality of a publication venue is the > acceptance rate of that conference. **** > > ** ** > > WikiSym is not considered highly rated because a high proportion of the > submitted papers are accepted. Would a wiki journal be more restrictive in > order to gain a "highly rated" status? **** > > ** ** > > I think it's interesting to ask why WikiSym needs improvement and why > attendance has been falling. If a WikiSym is a wiki conference that is > struggling to maintain participation, how might a wiki journal surmount > such trouble? Assuming that the answer to my question above is "yes, the > wiki-journal would be more restrictive", how would such a journal gather > more submissions than an established conference like WikiSym -- enough to > both produce regular issues and maintain a high rejection rate?**** > > ** ** > > -Aaron**** > > ** ** > > On Thu, Nov 8, 2012 at 9:12 AM, Joe Corneli <[email protected]> > wrote:**** > > On Thu, Nov 8, 2012 at 3:02 PM, Aaron Halfaker <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > To state it plainly, why do we need yet another publication venue > specific to wiki software?**** > > I think people want a "highly rated" publication venue. Also, > > «The reason why WikiSym is changing is for the same reason. People are > not going to the conference! I think the attendance has been below > 100 for some time now. That's not a sustainable number for the amount > of work that goes into organizing a conference.» > > But what you're saying suggests that maybe work should be done to > improve existing venues rather than creating a new one. > > _______________________________________________ > Wiki-research-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l**** > > ** ** > > _______________________________________________ > Wiki-research-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l > > -- Prof. Manuel Palomo Duarte, PhD Software Process Improvement and Formal Methods group (SPI&FM). Degree Coordinator for Computer Science. Department of Computer Science. Escuela Superior de Ingenieria. C/ Chile, 1 11002 - Cadiz (Spain) University of Cadiz http://neptuno.uca.es/~mpalomo Tlf: (+34) 956 015483 Mobile phone: (+34) 649 280080 Mobile phone from University network: 45483 Fax: (+34) 956 015139 Aviso legal: Este mensaje (incluyendo los ficheros adjuntos) puede contener información confidencial, dirigida a un destinatario y objetivo específico. Si usted no es el destinatario del mismo le pido disculpas, y le pido que elimine este correo, evitando cualquier divulgación, copia o distribución de su contenido, así como desarrollar o ejecutar cualquier acción basada en el mismo. -- Legal Notice: This message (including the attached files) contains confidential information, directed to a specific addressee and objective. In case you are not the addressee of the same, I apologize. And I ask you to delete this mail, and not to resend, copy or distribute its content, as well as develop or execute any action based on the same.
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