Selecting papers for publication or How does a journal decide which type of papers to select for their journal? Kristen Sejrsen, SVE
Why me? Involved in the start of animal Senior editor animal President of EAAP- one of the 3 partners
Outline Consideration behind the scope Outline of the scope of animal Concluding remarks
Background Many different small animal science journals Many European scientist send their papers to the US A wish to create a European journal of the same stature as Journal of Animal Science and Journal of Dairy Science Unhappy with the financial agreement with Elsevier - Loss of funds for the federation
What is important for authors? Which topics? - Should it be open to other topics that traditional animal science
- Can it be too broad?
- Biomedical, genetic ressources, tropical agriculture, companion animals, aquaculture, human health aspects?
- Too narrow?
International or European? - should papers of only local relevance be accepted?
Emphasis on the impact factor? - What is a high impact factor for this type of journal?
- JDS - 2.28 in 2006; JAS - 1.98; LPS - 1.13; RND – 1.82; Animal Science – 1.02; Acta Agr. – 0.33
- Maximize impact factor via max. focus on potentially high impact papers?
- Or focus on papers from the scientist of the “constituency”?
Rapid handling of papers?
All journals try, in different ways, to expand the traditional area - Biomedical
- Human health aspects
- Tropical
- Genetic ressources
- Companion animals
- Animal models
- Aquaculture
- Ethics
The hunt for high impact factor is futile for animal scientists - Publish in animal
- or another animal science journal
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