Comments on: The Market for Scholarly Articles

By: Successful Crowdsourcing Requires Feedback « The Scholarly Kitchen

Successful Crowdsourcing Requires Feedback « The Scholarly Kitchen — Thu, 21 May 2009 10:42:02 +0000

[...] publishing has something that YouTube and both Digg lack — the brand name of a journal. The journal name sets an expectation of quality to the reader and thus an immediate form of attentio…. Get an article published in a top-tier journal and you are likely to be read (and cited) much [...]

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The Paradox of Persistence in an Attention Economy « The Scholarly Kitchen — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 10:54:30 +0000

[...] Like YouTube producers, academic authors operate in an attention economy where success is measured by the ability to attract…. [...]

By: Comment on Phillip Davis’s “The Market for Scholarly Articles” « Pro Bono Statistics

Wed, 28 Jan 2009 06:54:21 +0000

[...] 28, 2009 As Phillip Davis writes (reprinted in the IMS Bulletin), scholarly authors are driven to publish in journals because that [...]

By: Joseph J. Esposito

Joseph J. Esposito — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 18:54:11 +0000

Very insightful. There is a book emerging from these posts. One quibble: I don’t know that it is true that the number of publishers is dropping. Among book publishers, the number is rising; I believe this true for journals publishers as well. What is definitely true is that the market share, measured in dollars, is increasingly concentrated among journals publishers. The rich get richer, etc. But that doesn’t mean the number of publishers is dropping.

Joe Esposito