Peer-reviewed Scholarly Journals Research Articles

New Partner, New Opportunities

If you're reading this, then you already know—things look a little different around these parts. There is a new cover, a new journal website and, of course, fresh vascular access content. With that in mind and on behalf of the Association for Vascular Access (AVA), I would like to personally welcome Allen Press, Inc. as the new publisher-services partner of the Journal of the Association for Vascular Access (JAVA)!Why did we decide to change the way we publish? The AVA Board of Directors, in concert with the AVA staff, elected to move away from Elsevier near the end of 2017 in an effort to reset and refocus. Bringing JAVA back to a self-publishing structure gives us more flexibility with our content and allows us to place a more personal touch on what the journal provides AVA members and its subscribers.Our goal is to raise awareness of the vascular access specialty across the globe: We know as well as you do that people need to become aware of our mission and values if we are to improve patient care. JAVA is an integral piece of the AVA communications arm, along with Intravascular Quarterly (IQ) (https://www.avainfo.org/page/iqlanding), the ISAVE That Podcast (https://www.avainfo.org/page/podcastpublic), and AVA's five social media accounts.With Allen Press, Inc. providing composition and content management services, including the printing and online presence of AVA's multidisciplinary, peer-reviewed scholarly journal, our entire team is confident this will allow JAVA to continue to grow from a clinical, quality, and professional standpoint. The transition from Elsevier to Allen Press, Inc. took an extensive amount of time and energy. I look forward to seeing how our new partner can help us share our content on a larger scale.Authors want their content read globally, while clinicians and researchers need to find information pertinent to their practice quickly. Allen Press, Inc. offers new, strategic ways to make these things happen.There were challenges during this extensive transition process over the past year, and some kinks still remain. For now, I hope you take some time to check out the new journal website that remains under the same URL as before (https://avajournal.com/), submit a new manuscript for publication (https://www.editorialmanager.com/java/Default.aspx), or consider becoming a JAVA reviewer (https://www.avainfo.org/page/JAVAReviewer).It is incredibly easy for AVA members to access the JAVA content online. After signing in to your account at the AVA website, visit the new JAVA page (https://www.avainfo.org/page/java) and follow the link. No need to sign in twice!We will inform authors and members of any additional changes that present themselves as we put a bow on this transition. I intend to continue working hard on the editorial side of our publication and want to acknowledge and thank the members of the JAVA Editorial Review Board for their support, time, and willingness to share their knowledge and advice to authors. They are consummate professionals and play a pivotal role in the four issues of JAVA that show up on your doorstep each year.AVA now holds the keys to the JAVA publication vehicle, with Allen Press acting as its engine. We look forward to what the future holds!

Impact of Open Access Journals in DOAJ: An Analysis

The present study aims to investigate the trend and growth of open access journals at a global level, in DOAJ portal. The study is based on the data taken from the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) from 2002 to 2018, a database of fully open access peer-reviewed scholarly journals. The author found that there are 12065 journals indexed in DOAJ on all the field of study. The study presents findings on the contribution to DOAJ by country, year, language, and subject. The study found that countries like the United Kingdom and Indonesia publications are more in this portal and English is the most common communication language. Most of the journals do not charge article processing charges (APCs). Majority journals are Peer-Reviewed journals. Medicine and Education related journals are highest in this portal, 11% of the 12065 journals in DOAJ have been awarded DOAJ special tag/designation. Contribution of Elsevier, Science and BioMed Central publishers is more compared to other publications during the study period.

A systematic literature review ofLean Six Sigma in financial services: Key finding and analysis

The paper intends to analyse the impact of LSS in financial services through systematic literature review and identify current research gaps. It focuses more on exploring the different concepts in the area of financial services by performing a systematic literature review along with data visualisation techniques. The literature review of articles that are published in peer-reviewed scholarly journals from 1993 to 2017 was collected for performing the content analysis. Based, on the descriptive analysis performed on the collected materials, many results about the articles trend in the selected areas were found. Further, the content analysis revealed many research inferences like the role of e-banking, success factors, barriers in the context of LSS. Further, proposed work for future researchers in this field. The paper presents a systematic and unique application to detect the various opportunities for LSS in the financial domain.

Critical success factors of TQM, Six Sigma, Lean and Lean Six Sigma

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to review the existing literature on the critical success factors (CSFs) of various continuous improvement (CI) like total quality management (TQM), Lean, Six Sigma and Lean Six Sigma (LSS), and perform a content analysis (CA) leading to an agenda for future research.Design/methodology/approachCA is based on literature review of 41 papers published in peer-reviewed scholarly journals. A four-stage methodology is used by the authors, with Stage 1 featuring relevant material collection; Stage 2 presenting a descriptive analysis; Stage 3 outlining the category selection; and Stage 4 featuring the material evaluation using clustering and Pareto analysis.FindingsThe CA revealed various research implications and directions for the future. The number of studies in the literature regarding CSF assessment is found to be far from substantial while compared to CI implementation. Assessment methodologies developed have been ranging from qualitative to quantitative models. Key gaps were identified and directions for CSF assessment are proposed which requires further validation.Research limitations/implicationsOnly articles that appeared in peer-reviewed journals were analyzed; conference papers, reports, manuals and white papers from practice were excluded. Another limitation of the paper would be the scope of CA limited to four CI constructs – TQM, Lean, Six Sigma and LSS. Research implications indicate that the future studies in this domain would be intensive toward analyzing the vital CSFs for enterprise organizational excellence and not merely process excellence.Practical implicationsThis review study can serve as a resource for both researchers and practitioners to understand the importance of CSFs and positioning CSFs for the successful implementation of CI programs.Originality/valueThe CA on the existing literature on CSFs for CI presents a unique, systematic effort to identify an agenda for future research. This study is the apparently the first of its kind on CSF assessment.

Methodological landscape in research on teacher identity in mathematics education: a review

A vast body of research has shown that teacher identity matters, be it in mathematics or in any other subject. The means of investigating teacher identity greatly determine the knowledge we have; however, no review of the methodological approaches into this topic has yet been conducted. This paper provides an overview of the methodological approaches in the research on teacher identity in mathematics education, in order to initiate a discussion on developmental possibilities in terms of how future research on this topic could be carried out. We examine 52 studies, published between 2000 and 2017 in peer-reviewed scholarly journals, investigating the identities of student teachers and/or practitioners who were generalists and/or specialised mathematics teachers. We identified the following to be prevalent data sources in qualitative approaches: interviews, written reflections or narratives, and classroom observations. In terms of analytical approaches, the scene is rather monotonous. Finally, we provide suggestions for future methodological considerations, highlighting the need for researchers to label their methodological decisions in order to better situate and connect their work to other research on mathematics-related teacher identity.

A systematic review of executive coaching outcomes: Is it the journey or the destination that matters the most?

In this article, we focus on a specific type of personal and professional development practice -executive coaching- and present the most extensive systematic review of executive coaching outcome studies published in peer-reviewed scholarly journals to date. We focus only on coaching provided by external coaches to organizational members. Our purpose is twofold: First, to present and evaluate how executive coaching outcome studies are designed and researched (particularly regarding methodological rigor and context-sensitivity). Secondly, to provide a comprehensive review of what we know about executive coaching outcomes, what are the contextual drivers that affect coaching interventions and what the current gaps in our understanding of coaching practice. On that basis, we discuss and provide a research agenda that might significantly shift the field. We argue that methodological rigor is as important as context-sensitivity in the design of executive coaching outcome studies. We conclude with a discussion of implications for practice.

More than Just Games: Canada and the 1936 Olympics by Richard Menkis and Harold Troper, and: Playing for Change: The Continuing Struggle for Sport and Recreation ed. by Russel Field

Reviewed by: More than Just Games: Canada and the 1936 Olympics by Richard Menkis and Harold Troper, and: Playing for Change: The Continuing Struggle for Sport and Recreation ed. by Russel Field Robert K. Barney Menkis, Richard and Harold Troper – More than Just Games: Canada and the 1936 Olympics. Toronto, Buffalo, and London: University of Toronto Press, 2015. Pp. 280. Field, Russel, ed. – Playing for Change: The Continuing Struggle for Sport and Recreation. Toronto, Buffalo, and London: University of Toronto Press, 2015. Pp. 466. Almost since governments started directing public tax monies toward sport matters, the question of priority has existed. Whom to select: athletes who train and compete at high levels representing municipalities, provinces, and nations, or the masses, folks like you and me, who pursue exercise options in various "other" sport and recreation programs? It is evident that the elites have won the day. In the midst of such a situation one can often spot the litter of struggle between the voices of discontent, sometimes successful, more often unsuccessful, and their opponents. More than Just Games and Playing for Change are two recent works that deal in part with the effort by various individuals and parties to address the primary debate—the "struggle" of those who feel compromised, indeed disenfranchised, versus those whom government has favoured, indeed empowered. Just when one believes that "everything possible" has appeared on Olympic history's most written-about event, the both "glorious and notorious" Olympic Games of 1936 in Berlin, there arrives More than Just Games, a book I conclude to be the most thorough scholarly treatment available in any language on the events surrounding one country's decision to participate—or not—in those historic competitions some eighty years ago. There have been many excellent (along with [End Page 186] some not quite so superb) examinations of participation at Berlin; most have been articles in peer-reviewed scholarly journals or chapters in thematic anthologies; there never has been, to my knowledge, an entire monograph on one country's grappling with the dilemma of whether to "show up or not" for the Games that the Nazis shaped and Adolf Hitler endorsed and that, in the end, Canadian athletes, like their British brethren and American neighbours, dignified with their presence. Bruce Kidd, considered one of the foremost chroniclers and analysts of Canadian sport, and a staunch defender of athletes' rights, in The Struggle for Canadian Sport (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1996) brushes aside in two sentences the quest to which the authors of More than Just Games devote some 200+ pages of text, plus 40 more in endnotes. Stated Kidd: "Despite considerable opposition to the 1936 Olympic Games in Nazi Germany, when the British Olympic Association decided to send a team Canadian Olympic officials simply voted to do the same. There was no further discussion" (p. 71). That was "it!" Although the issue of boycotting participation in the United States receives cursory attention from Richard Mandell in The Nazi Olympics (London: Macmillan, 1971), and in Great Britain from Duff Hart-Davis in Hitler's Games (London: Harper & Row, 1986), more penetrating are the treatments by William Murray, George Eizen, and Stephen Wenn. Murray focuses on France: "France, Coubertin and the Nazi Olympics" (Olympika: The International Journal of Olympic Studies, I-1992). Eizen and Wenn explore U.S. boycott events, in Eizen's case: "Voices of Sanity: American Diplomatic Reports from the 1936 Berlin Olympiad" (Journal of Sport History, vol. 26, 1999; in Wenn's: "A Tale of Two Diplomats: GeorgeS. Messersmith and Charles H. Sherrill on Proposed Participation in the 1936 Olympics" (Journal of Sport History, vol. 16, 1989). Far more than Canada's, the U.S. boycott debate aroused widespread attention and opinion on whether "to go or not to go." The idea for More than Just Games, and indeed its title, evolved from the exhibits More than Just Games: Canada and the 1936 Olympics and Framing Bodies: Sport and Spectacle in Nazi Germany, both of which opened on October 15, 2009, at Vancouver's Holocaust Education Centre in British Columbia. The writing and research experts for the exhibit More than Just Games were the Jewish-Canadian writers Richard...

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Note from the Editor

152 CLA JOURNAL Note from the Editor With this second-born digital issue, the College Language Association Journal proudly takes its place among other major academic periodicals that reap multiple benefitsfromthisalternativeplatform.AsEditor,IamhappytoreportthatCLAJhas just entered a Hosting Agreement with JSTOR with the full support of the CLA Executive Committee. Beginning with issues 61.1-2 and going forward, JSTOR will be responsible for disseminating subsequent issues of the journal and making it accessible to our many institutional subscribers at jstor.org. This agreement with JSTOR to serve as the journal’s hosting platform will assure greater access and wider circulation of our published materials. JSTOR is “a highly selective digital library of academic content in many formats and disciplines. The collections include top peer-reviewed scholarly journals as well as respected literary journals, academic monographs, research reports from trusted institutes, and primary sources.” It provides “full runs of more than 2,600 top scholarly journals in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences”and“works with a diverse group of nearly 1,200 publishers from more than 57 countries to preserve and make their content digitally available.” For more information on this service, go to https://about.jstor. org/whats-in-jstor/. Questions regarding current issue subscriptions to CLAJ may also be directed to px@ithaka.org. As a reminder, CLA members will continue to have easy access to CLAJ through the CLA portal. Joining this league has required an enormous amount of behind-the-scenes work that included doing comparison research on services offered by various digital hosting organizations, holding weekly conference calls with JSTOR officials and CLA Executive Committee members, reading through thick documents, and, finally, entering an agreement with what we determined to be the best hosting venue for CLAJ. Subscribers will also note that the momentum of CLAJ’s publishing schedule was impacted as we worked out terms of a win-win agreement with JSTOR. Now that both organizations have sealed that agreement, we turn our full attention to bringing the journal back in line with its publishing commitment. Of course, this enterprise will not only involve CLAJ’s internal operations. You can also play a role by assuring that we keep a healthy reserve of scholarly articles from which to choose for each new issue. Moving forward, CLAJ will also actively pursue new ideas to continue to engage our many faithful subscribers. The depth, breadth, and quality of the five essays in this issue affirm that CLAJ continues to evolve with excellence! In “Marronage and Re-Creation in Assata,” Dominick Rolle analyzes Assata Shakur’s rich autobiography in which she relates her experiences as a black female soldier in a para-military, black power organization—the Black Liberation Army. While doing so, he explores her arrest and subsequent periods of incarceration by the New Jersey legal system after she CLA JOURNAL 153 Note from the Editor is accused of killing a white police officer on a New Jersey turnpike in 1973. He asserts that Assata represents herself as a female maroon figure to critique the horrendous ways in which the American legal system continues to position black women as property in prison, while she indicts the prison-industrial-complex as orchestrating a system of neo-slavery which entraps people of color across the African Diaspora. Assata’s escape from prison and her subsequent exile in Cuba also suggests the capacity of blacks to fight against this egregious system of confinement through flight and resistance. During the first Red Scare of 1919, the state department’s Bureau of Investigation (BI) hired investigative agents who were trained by Yale University’s Department of English in biographical criticism to surveil the lives and works of African American writers for evidence of radicalism and sedition. Cognizant of such surveillance, Claude McKay fled the U.S. and embarked on a decade-long transatlantic journey to escape surveillance in America. Employing recent work in surveillancestudies,KelseyKiser’sessay,“‘Howcomeyoujustvanishedthatawaylike a spook’: Global Surveillance in the Transatlantic Novels of Claude McKay,”reveals how McKay’s transatlantic plots exposed the state’s shift from local surveillance methods of panoptical physical enclosure to bureaucratized fluid surveillance that tracked expatriated black writers abroad. Kiser asserts that we...

Remembering Alton Parker Hornsby, Jr., 1940–2017

Remembering Alton Parker Hornsby, Jr., 1940–2017

Iranian Scholarly Journals 2.0: An Updated Annotated Bibliography

ABSTRACTThis is an update of the authors’ annotated bibliography of Iranian peer-reviewed scholarly journals that was published in 2010 in the Serials Librarian. The total number of scholarly journals published in Iran increased from 503 to 1,176 journals in 2017. The forty top journals ranked by impact factor from eight different disciplines are presented in this article. The entry for each journal includes the following information: title, subject, date founded, frequency, editor, language, publisher, address, phone number, FAX number, web address, International Standard Serial Number, indexing/abstracting sources, impact factor, ministry, and an abstract/annotation.

Methods to Assess the Value of New Technologies: the Case of Consumer Sentiment Towards Digital Wallet Technology

New technologies and scientific findings are typically announced in peer-reviewed scholarly journals which seldom assess the economic or social consequences of the technology, even though this may be important in motivating funding for future extensions and commercial applications of the research. This paper describes new methodologies that have become available with the advent of social network data and computationally intensive statistical methods to ascertain the value of new technologies. It provides an example application of two methodologies to answer basic questions in a specific industry, regarding the dynamic processes governing IP protection, innovation law, market structure and evolution, and rates or entry and exit. It also proposes a third affective technology for revealing true consumer sentiment and discusses risks and controls of collecting such affective data, which is commercially important in areas such as film and television review, food and beverage consumption, and in general arenas that display strong non-verbal or emotive characteristics, which would be likely subjects for data acquisition. Our application collected 449,145 Twitter postings on consumer perceptions of digital wallet payment systems and collected all available information on patents in the US Patent and Trademark Office’s (USPTO) databases on digital wallet technologies. Automated lexical analysis was programmed and applied to individual tweets to extract consumer sentiment concerning specific technologies in the USPTO database, and assessed using customized econometric methods. The application of methodologies in this topic area can provide guidance for using newly available datasets to assess the potential economic value and consumer acceptance of new technologies arising out of the laboratory.

Open access journals in library and information science: A study on DOAJ

The present study is based on the data taken from the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), a database of fully open access peer-reviewed scholarly journals. The prime objective of the study is to explore quantitatively the inclusion of Library & Information Science Journal from several perspectives. It is found that there are 158 LIS journals indexed in DOAJ published from 43 countries in 21 different languages. While English is the dominant language of publication 3 journals are published simultaneously in five languages. India occupies the fifth rank sharing a common position with its counterparts like Poland and United Kingdom with six Indian LIS journals indexed in DOAJ. The sustainability of LIS journals in open access domain is clearly reflected from the study.

Publication Delay of Manuscripts in Periodicals Published by CSIR-NISCAIR

Publishing in scholarly peer-reviewed journals causes long delays from submission to its subsequent publication. This may be due to the long peer-review process or backlog of manuscripts waiting in line in the journals. The present study examines the publication delay in 13 journals published by CSIR-NISCAIR at three different stages. These were delays between receipt of manuscript and its revision, editorial delay, revision and its subsequent publication, i.e. technical delay, and the total delay. The study examined 1223 articles published in these 13 journals in the year 2015, except for 1 journal for which data for 2104 have been used. The analysis indicates that the publication delay varied from one discipline to another and from one journal to another journal. The highest time delay was found to be for the Indian Journal of Chemical Technology, and lowest for the Indian Journal of Chemistry - A. The total publication delay varied between 5.2 and 22.4 months. In most of the journals, the reason for delay was technical.

Key Provisions of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA): A Systematic Review and Presentation of Early Research Findings.

To conduct a systematic literature review of selected major provisions of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) pertaining to expanded health insurance coverage. We present and synthesize research findings from the last 5years regarding both the immediate and long-term effects of the ACA. We conclude with a summary and offer a research agenda for future studies. We identified relevant articles from peer-reviewed scholarly journals by performing a comprehensive search of major electronic databases. We also identified reports in the "gray literature" disseminated by government agencies and other organizations. Overall, research shows that the ACA has substantially decreased the number of uninsured individuals through the dependent coverage provision, Medicaid expansion, health insurance exchanges, availability of subsidies, and other policy changes. Affordability of health insurance continues to be a concern for many people and disparities persist by geography, race/ethnicity, and income. Early evidence also indicates improvements in access to and affordability of health care. All of these changes are certain to ultimately impact state and federal budgets. The ACA will either directly or indirectly affect almost all Americans. As new and comprehensive data become available, more rigorous evaluations will provide further insights as to whether the ACA has been successful in achieving its goals.

Virginia Braun and Victoria Clarke, <em>Successful Qualitative Research: A Practical Guide for Beginners</em>, SAGE Publications, 2013, Pages: xiii + 382, Price: GBP 28.99 (LKR 5,900 Approx.), ISBN: 1-84787-582-2

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Goal and Purposes of the Journal Humanities Open Access—An Introduction by the Editor-in-Chief, Prof. Albrecht Classen

Humanities Open Access is a peer-reviewed scholarly journal that aims for the highest research standards.[...]

International Service Learning: Analytical Review of Published Research Literature

International service learning (ISL) is an emerging area of international education. This paper summarizes scholarly journal articles on ISL programs, organized by academic disciplines and service-learning project areas. Who administers ISL programs and how, the countries in which these projects have occurred, and the outcomes and benefits of the projects discussed in this literature is presented. Relevant literature on “International Service Learning” from full-text scholarly peer-reviewed journals on 67 EBSCO Host databases published from 2000 to 2013 served as the basis for this literature review. No returns were found in this search before the year 2000. Of 96 returns, 41 of them, published from 2003 to 2013, were relevant for this review.

What are Journals for?

'The secret is comprised in three words - work, finish, publish.' Michael Faraday There are many reasons doctors want to publish their work. For most at an early stage in their career, this may be to add a line to their curriculum vitae and advance their careers but for academics, publishing is an expectation. Many will believe they have something important to say, and wish to provoke debate and discussion; others wish to share knowledge and experiences, which in medicine can lead to a satisfying change in clinical practice. All serve to register one's idea and educate others. However, for some, the reason is as basic as money. As we celebrate the 350th anniversary of the first academic publication, perhaps we have come full circle when it comes to why people publish? Publishing is a flourishing business. There were approximately 28,100 active scholarly peer-reviewed journals in mid-2012, collectively publishing about 1.8-1.9 million articles per year. The number of articles published each year and the number of journals have both grown steadily for more than two centuries, by about 3% and 3.5% per year respectively. (1) Journals have a responsibility to refine and define information and act as a scientific filter. Many of us will receive daily invitations in our email inbox from eclectic and new journals that are likely to take anything - is the filter now too porous? But this industry is like any other commercial activity and the supply still far outstrips the demand. Perhaps the internet revolution has merely fuelled our hunger to publish more? The launch of this exciting and innovative series about publishing coincides with the 350th celebration of the publication of the first academic journal. In the age of social media, the first question is 'What are journals for?', which Simon Rallison sets out to answer. Simon is Director of Publications at the Physiological Society, and was previously a journal publisher with Earthscan, Springer and Blackwell. Writing is hard work and, through this series, I hope the reader will get some useful insight into this service industry for academia. Jyoti Shah Commissioning Editor Reference 1. Ware M, Mabe M. The STM Report. 3rd edn. The Hague: International Association of Scientific, Technical and Medical Publishers; 2012.