Fair and Open Approach to Academic Publishing |
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Authors: | Simon Bell Robert L Flood |
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Institution: | (1) SPAR, Communications and Systems, Maths, Computing and Technology Faculty, Open University, Milton Keynes, MK7 6AA, United Kingdom;(2) SPAR, Maastricht School of Management, Endepolsdomein 150, 6229 EP Maastricht, Netherlands; |
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Abstract: | The Journal Systemic Practice and Action Research (SPAR) aims to encourage into print authors and practitioners of systemic thinking and practice from all kinds of background.
In this note we describe both the publishing world into which SPAR has emerged and the systemic and inclusive thinking behind
the journal’s publishing policy. We set out our manifesto for a fair and open approach to academic publishing. “A rich and
diverse set of potential bibliometric and scientometric predictors of research performance quality and importance are emerging
today—from the classic metrics (publication counts, journal impact factors and individual article/author citation counts)
to promising new online metrics such as download counts, hub/authority scores and growth/decay chronometrics. In and of themselves,
however, metrics are circular: They need to be jointly tested and validated against what it is that they purport to measure
and predict, with each metric weighted according to its contribution to their joint predictive power. The natural criterion
against which to validate metrics is expert evaluation by peers; a unique opportunity to do this is offered by the 2008 UK
Research Assessment Exercise, in which a full spectrum of metrics can be jointly tested, field by field, against peer rankings.”
(Harnard 2008) |
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