Evolving Standards For Academic Publishing: A q-r Theory

Evolving Standards for Academic Publishing: A q-r Theory

Over the last several decades academic journal articles have become longer and changed in other ways. The review process has also changed – it now often involves extensive revisions of initial submissions. This paper develops a model of evolving standards for academic publishing. Papers are assumed to vary along two quality dimensions: q and r. The former is interpreted as the importance of a p...

Academic publishing is electronic publishing

Derk Haank began by saying that he wanted to keep his presentation simple and would make only a few statements. The first of these was to say that, although it might be stating the obvious, academic publishing is electronic publishing. It has been remarkable how quickly things have progressed since the invention of the Web, and an EC study recently recognised that the revolution in electronic p...

What academic publishing can do for science?

The dual superconformal theory for L p , q , r manifolds

We present the superconformal gauge theory living on the world-volume of D3 branes probing the toric singularities with horizon the recently discovered Sasaki-Einstein manifolds L. Various checks of the identification are made by comparing the central charge and the R-charges of the chiral fields with the information that can be extracted from toric geometry. Fractional branes are also introduc...

Ethics in academic publishing: a timely reminder

Most, if not all, academic librarians are by now familiar with the term “predatory publishing.” Beall in 2012 defined predatory publishers as “those that unprofessionally exploit the gold open-access model for their own profit,” often taking advantage of junior faculty and graduate students [1]. This problem has grown at an almost exponential rate. Whereas Beall identified 23 suspected predator...