Abstract
Nearly ten years ago, scholarly publishing came to the fore in research on scientific communication spurred by the evolving Open Science system, the reinvention of peer reviews, and new attitudes to scholarly publications in the ranking-based academic environment. Here, the JLE editors revisit the field of scholarly publishing and identify the most popular areas where potential JLE authors might have difficulty. In this editorial, Scopus-indexed reviews are analysed to map the prevailing trends. The editorial review shows that the trends include open access, peer review transparency, the changing role of libraries in scholarly publishing, CrossRef’s initiatives, outsourcing and skills lacking in publishing, the impact of universities’ prescribed lists for publishing research, open-access monographs, and the role of commercial publishers.
Highlights
Publishing has been researched more intensely over the last ten years as a separate field of study
As reviews tend to give a deep analysis of the field, we studied the reviews published in the Journal of Scholarly Publishing (Q2, n=21), Science Editing (Q2, n=5), Insights: the UKSG Journal (Q2, n=4), Information Services and Use (Q2, n=3), Learned Publishing (Q1, n=2), Libri (Q2, n=2), and another 14 journals (n=1)
Fifteen of the 47 reviews directly or partially focused on open access publishing and Open Science challenges for scholarly publishing
Summary
Publishing has been researched more intensely over the last ten years as a separate field of study. The reality of “publish or perish” has motivated researchers to seek more publications in high-ranking journals as these activities determine a researcher’s status in the quantitative systems of university rankings. Research on scholarly publishing is highly influenced by the emerging field of Open Science and other trends igniting heated debate. Some scholars feel that ‘evidence-based rational debate’ is often suppressed by misinformed rhetoric (Tennant et al, 2019). Some of the topics are highly contested. Others are universal and have been in existence for years. The striking feature of the major research themes is brand-new aspects of the old phenomena
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