Christopher A. Barnes is Assistant Professor and Digital Publishing Librarian at Adelphi University, where he oversees the institutional repository and the University Libraries’ open access publishing program. He serves as production editor for the Journal of Critical Study of Communication and Disability and his research focuses on the reform of scholarly communications and the use of open educational resources.
While higher rates of endogeny can help indexes identify journals being used for self-promotion, nepotism, or other unethical ends, endogeny itself should not be equated with them and can be the result of a narrow or new field of research.