[GOAL] Re: A suggestion: A voiding overpriced journals

[Ted Bergstrom]

Preston McAfee and I maintain a website http://www.journalprices.com/
that attempts to do something along these lines.  We classify journals 
in each field as
good values , intermediate values and bad values by comparing an 
index based on  price per article and price per citation with the median 
value of this index for non-profit journals in the same field.We 
encourage scholars to consider these indexes when deciding where to 
submit papers and whether to offer free refereeing services to a journal.

We have recently posted an updated version with 2011 prices and 2010 
citation and article counts.


On 6/20/12 9:29 AM, R. Stephen Berry wrote:
 Would it be useful to have a listing available to let working scientists know 
 which publications they should avoid using,
 based on field and, more important, on the publishing policies of the 
 publisher?

   Steve Berry
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[GOAL] Re: A suggestion

[Dana Roth]

Publications to avoid ... one could use http://www.journalprices.com

Journal Cost-Effectiveness 2011

Select a subject area and sort by price per article ...  with descending 
results ...

And quickly see the most outrageously priced journals.

The problem, however, is that the list could use some editing for obvious 
errors.

Most Librarians should be able to prepare a list of representative journals, 
obtain the 2011 subscription price and check Web of Science of the number of 
published articles and run the numbers.

We did this 20 years ago to alert faculty to the major disparity between 
non-profit society and commercially published journals.

It is very important NOT to compare review journals with research journals and 
make allowances for added value content like Nature and Science.

Dana L. Roth 
Millikan Library / Caltech 1-32 
1200 E. California Blvd. Pasadena, CA 91125 
626-395-6423  fax 626-792-7540 
dzr...@library.caltech.edu 
http://library.caltech.edu/collections/chemistry.htm 


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Would it be useful to have a listing available to let working scientists know 
which publications they should avoid using, based on field and, more important, 
on the publishing policies of the publisher?

Steve Berry
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