The indices such as h-index, e-index etc has received much attention from the scientific community owing to their prowess to impact journal quality. Many different indicatorshave been developed to overcome drawbacks of h-index. Nearly four indices which are of prime importance in the publishing industry were utilized.In this paper, we present a modified k-means algorithm to generate three clust...

Statistical data is present everywhere—from governmental bodies to economics, from life-science to industry. With the rise of the Web of Data, the need for sharing, accessing, and using this data has entered a new stage. In order to enable proprietary, closed-world formats, to enter the Web of Data, we propose a framework for modelling and publishing statistical data. To illustrate the usefulne...

s, syntactic relationships, etc. schema. A conceptual structure that arranges parts in some order, showing interrelationships. secondary concept. Concepts extracted from other concepts. semantic analysis. In linguistic analysis, disambiguating synonyms and homonyms to extract elementary concepts. semantic factoring. The process of analyzing a compound concept into its elementary components. SGM...

For several years, the senior editors and editorial board of Tobacco Control have discussed changing our formal stance on the publication of research funded by the tobacco industry. It is simple enough to say, as most journals do, that regardless of funding source, well-done science should always be welcome at a journal if it passes peer review, and that full disclosure about funding sources pr...

Competitive environment in converging digital media industry is changing rapidly. This calls for tighter integration of creativity, business processes, and technologies. Media companies need flexible methods to manage electronic content production and delivery, and metadata is a key enabler in making this goal a reality. However, metadata is useful only if its nature is understood clearly and i...

We study the distribution dynamics of the demand for books in Italy. We find that for each of three broad sub-markets in which the book publishing industry can be classified − Italian novels, foreign novels and essays − sales over a three-year sample can be adequately fitted by a power law distribution. Our results can be plausibly interpreted in terms of a model of interactions among buyers ex...

In this paper, we examine how to improve the precision and recall of document clustering by utilizing meta-data. We use meta-data through NewsML tags to assist clustering and show that this approach is effective through experiments on sample news data. Experimental result shows that clustering using NewsML could improve average recall and precision over the same without using NewsML by about 10...

This eLib Supporting Study was conceived to investigate the incidence and nature of the publishing of electronic scholarly monographs and textbooks in the United Kingdom. Given the international nature of academic publishing, and the fact that the professional literature suggested a higher incidence of activity within North America, the study was extended to encompass publishing beyond the UK. ...

Contributing to contemporary studies on knowledge workers, this paper aims to conceptualize the four critical challenges for editors in the Chinese publishing industry under the framework of political economy. These challenges, as a result of fundamental social changes, including technological, political and economic ones, and, most importantly, changes in class relations and power dynamics are...

In recent years, scholarly publishing has been faced with many distractive phenomena. Generally, most researchers are unaware of fraudulent practices now common to scholarly publishing and are at risk of becoming a victim of them. Editors also need to have sufficient knowledge about these practices. There are papers that try to increase awareness of authors about fraud in scholarly publishing, ...