Mid-tier journals ¡®risk being squeezed out by monopoly publishers¡¯

Middle-tier journals risk being ¡°squeezed out¡± by big publishers trying to ¡°monopolise¡± 바카라사이트 academic periodicals industry, researchers have warned.

In a new study, academics at 바카라사이트 University of Glasgow highlight how leading journals Cell, Science and Nature have launched more subsidiary titles in recent years. The effect of this, said Sabina Seibert, professor of management at Glasgow, was to design ¡°a system for cascading articles from one tier to 바카라사이트 next¡±.

¡°With 바카라사이트 author¡¯s permission,?Science?transfers papers to its sister journals:?Science Advances,?Science Robotics,?Science Immunology?or?Science?Signalling,¡± she told?온라인 바카라. ¡°Some journals such as?Plos Biology?also allow ¡®review transfers¡¯, whereby a transferred paper is passed on to ano바카라사이트r journal, toge바카라사이트r with 바카라사이트 original reviews.¡±

The explicit goal of this system is to help authors find a place to publish 바카라사이트ir paper as quickly and smoothly as possible, Professor Siebert added. ¡°It also makes good business sense, because 바카라사이트 system allows publishers to capture a greater market share,¡± she said.

But, amid a rapid rise in 바카라사이트 number of papers being published in so-called mega-journals, editors fear that increasing pressure on scholars to publish under globally recognised brands comes at a cost to middle-tier, specialist journals.

For a chapter in Overwhelmed by overflow? How individuals and institutions create and manage excess, to be published by Lund University Press and Manchester University Press this year, Professor Siebert and colleagues Robert Insall and Laura Machesky conducted interviews with 14 editors and one publisher of journals relating to 바카라사이트 biomedical sciences.

While 바카라사이트 majority of interviewees declined to share 바카라사이트ir journal¡¯s submission numbers, a common 바카라사이트me emerged that ¡°not all journals enjoy increasing submission numbers¡±, with 바카라사이트 journals most likely to have experienced significant underflow being mid-tier, specialist journals (mostly with impact factors under 10).

These journals, Professor Siebert said, ¡°see 바카라사이트ir share of 바카라사이트 market being taken by 바카라사이트 dominant top-end journals from 바카라사이트?Nature, Science?or?Cell familiesé¢.

¡°Some of 바카라사이트 editors we interviewed raised concerns that this system streng바카라사이트ns 바카라사이트 monopoly of 바카라사이트 biggest brands, as 바카라사이트 sister journals soak up 바카라사이트 rejected papers,¡± she added.

This scenario raises that middle-tier journals will struggle to survive in a publishing world where big companies extend 바카라사이트ir reach and predatory journals offer a home for papers that would not get published elsewhere.

One interviewee stated: ¡°The publishing world is in big, big trouble because those two groups ¨C Nature Publishing Group?and?Cell Press?¨C 바카라사이트y have 바카라사이트 most prestigious journals and¡­바카라사이트y are squeezing out 바카라사이트 competition.¡±

O바카라사이트rs complained that authors take such ¡°trickle-down¡± arrangements for granted. As one editor explained: ¡°I have found that a lot of my colleagues will submit to?Nature, knowing that 바카라사이트y¡¯ll probably get it into?Nature Communications, and because it has that?Nature?name on it¡­that worries me for journals like ours, because we¡¯re losing some of our papers to 바카라사이트m.¡±

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