Abstract
Author(s): Dawson, Michael N; Stigall, Alycia L; Hortal, Joaquin | Abstract: Open access, shifting publishing mores, predatory journals, reviewer over-burden are just a few of the factors reshaping modern scientific publishing. How are changes in the publishing environment influencing biogeography? Over the past eight years, 63 different titles have been among the 25 journals publishing most “biogeography” articles in any given year; a small nucleus of journals has consistently published a large proportion of “biogeography” papers. Yet, the journals enjoying the largest positive trends—e.g. increasing share of biogeography publications and increasing Impact Factor—are outside of the nucleus; they are emerging open access ‘mega-journals’ that offer simplified criteria for publication. From the fault lines appearing across the publishing landscape, we see opportunities emerging for Frontiers of Biogeography as a vigorous hybrid model that leverages the strengths of ‘old world’ and ‘new world’ approaches to disseminating scientific knowledge and nurtures mutual benefits.
Highlights
In a general sense, we all understand that the publishing landscape is changing: open access, predatory journals, publish or perish, alternative peer-review platforms, and reviewer over-burden have mostly come to the fore in the past decade
A small suite of journals consistently publish a large proportion of the “biogeography” articles each year: Journal of Biogeography (JBI), MPE, and Zootaxa; PLoS ONE currently comes in a strong fourth, though its fortunes have been variable recently (Dawson et al 2017)
Erosion Our analyses suggest that the journals enjoying the largest positive trends—increasing share of biogeography publications and increasing JIF—are open access journals (Fig. 1)
Summary
We all understand that the publishing landscape is changing: open access, predatory journals, publish or perish, alternative peer-review platforms, and reviewer over-burden have mostly come to the fore in the past decade. Our goal is to complement prior deliberations on trends by subject area, emerging topics, and representation of biogeography in select ‘high profile’ journals (Dawson et al 2013, 2016, 2017) by providing an overview on the journals publishing most biogeographic research.
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