The editorial boards of Spanish scholarly journals: What are they like? What should they be like?

Journal of Scholarly Publishing

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 287-306

  Giménez Toledo, Elea ^a   Román Román, Adelaida ^a   Perdiguero, Pablo ^b   Palencia, Irene ^b  

^a CSIC   (Spain)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Editorial boards; Humanities; Journal evaluation; Management bodies; Social sciences; Spanish scholarly journals

Indexed keywords

EID: 70349754514     PISSN: 11989742     EISSN: 17101166     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3138/jsp.40.3.287     Document Type: Article

References (19)

1. Thomas E. Nisonger, 'The Relationship between International Editorial Board Composition and Citation Measures in Political Science, Business, and Genetics Journals,' Scientometrics 54, 2 (June 2002): 257-68, 263
2. Ibid., 259
3. Irene Hames, Peer Review and Manuscript Management in Scientific Journals: Guidelines for Good Practice (Malden, MA: Blackwell 2007)
4. Ibid., 11
5. Latindex: Sistema Regional de Información en Línea para Revistas Científicas de América Latina, el Caribe, España y Portugal, http://www.latindex.org
6. There are thirty-three criteria for print journals (see 'Revistas Impresas: Características Básicas,' http://www.latindex.unam.mx/latindex/busquedas1/revistas_imp.html) and 36 for electronic journals (see 'Evaluación de Revistas Electrónicas,' http://www.latindex.unam.mx/latindex/busquedas1/ revistas_elec.html).
7. Revistas Españolas de Ciencias Sociales y Humanas (RESH), http://resh.cindoc.csic.es
8. Romayne McKnight, 'Editorial Boards: How Do They Function? How Should They Function?' CBE Views 21, 6 (November-December 1998): 194
9. The Human and Social Sciences Center at the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) categorizes humanities and social science journals according to a variety of quality criteria. Category A is the highest of the four categories. For information see CSIC, 'Criterios de categorización de las revistas,' http://bddoc.csic.es:8080/ informacion.do?tabla=revi&bd= ISOC&estado∀rmulario=show#info5.
10. Ibid.
11. Irene Hames, 'Editorial Boards: Realizing Their Potential,' Learned Publishing 14, 4 (October 2001): 247-56;
12. Dorothy L. Steffens and Jane B. Robbins, 'The Role of Editors and Editorial Boards in Journal Publishing,' in Charles R. McClure and Peter Hernon, eds., Library and Information Science Research: Perspectives and Strategies for Improvement (Norwood, NJ: Ablex 1991): 197-202
13. Hames, 'Editorial Boards'
14. Thomson Reuters, 'The Thomson Scientific Journal Selection Process' (2008), http://www.thomsonreuters.com/business∪its/scientific/free/ essays/journalselection/
15. Resolución de 6 de noviembre de 2007, de la Presidencia de la Comisión Nacional Evaluadora de la Actividad Investigadora, por la que se establecen los criterios específicos en cada uno de los campos de evaluacioón [Resolution of 6 November 2007 of the Presidency of the Spanish National Research Evaluation Committee establishing the specific criteria in each of the fields of evaluation], http://www.mec.es/ciencia/cneai/files/2007-res-criterios.pdf
16. Nisonger, 'The Relationship between International Editorial Board Composition and Citation Measures,' 257
17. Fundación Española para la Ciencia y la Tecnología [FECYT], La edición de revistas científicas: directrices, criterios y modelos de evaluación (Madrid: FECYT 2007): 63-4 (our translation). Note that in Spain no distinctions have typically been made between disciplines in the sciences, social sciences, and humanities in terms of recommendations for and evaluation of journals' operations.
18. Harvey Markovitch and Alex Williamson, 'Editorial Boards,' in Hervé Maisonneuve et al., eds., Science Editor's Handbook (Guildford, UK: European Association of Science Editors 2003), 1-1.3
19. Ana Marusic and Matko Marusic, 'Organizing the Editorial Office and Educating Contributors,' in Hervé Maisonneuve et al., eds., Science Editor's Handbook (Guildford, UK: European Association of Science Editors 2003): 4-3.2