The editorial boards of scientific journals as a subject of scientometric research: A literature Review

Scientific and Technical Information Processing

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 144-153

  Mazov, N A ^a   Gureev, V N ^a  

^a TROFIMUK INSTITUTE OF PETROLEUM GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

bibliometric analysis; editorial board; journal review; scientific journals; scientometric indicators

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SCIENCE; DATA PROCESSING;

BIBLIOMETRIC ANALYSIS; EDITORIAL BOARD; PUBLICATION ACTIVITIES; RESEARCH PERFORMANCE; SCIENTIFIC DISCIPLINE; SCIENTIFIC JOURNALS; SCIENTIFIC PERIODICALS; SCIENTOMETRICS;

PUBLISHING;

EID: 85013960334     PISSN: 01476882     EISSN: 19348118     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3103/S0147688216030035     Document Type: Article

References (56)

1. Zsindely, S., Schubert, A., and Braun, T., Editorial gatekeeping patterns in international science journals. A new science indicator, Scientometrics, 1982, vol. 4, no. 1, pp. 57–68.
2. Mauleón, E., Hillán, L., Moreno, L., Gómez, I., and Bordons, M., Assessing gender balance among journal authors and editorial board members, Scientometrics, 2013, vol. 95, no. 1, pp. 87–114.
3. Robinson, D.H., McKay, D.W., Katayama, A.D., and Fan, A.-C., Are women underrepresented as authors and editors of educational psychology journals? Contemp. Educ. Psychol., 1998, vol. 23, no. 3, pp. 331–343.
4. Besancenot, D., Huynh, K.V., and Faria, J.R., Search and research: The influence of editorial boards on journals’ quality, Theory Decis., 2012, vol. 73, no. 4, pp. 687–702.
5. Gipp, B., Meuschke, N., and Breitinger, C., Citationbased plagiarism detection: Practicability on a largescale scientific corpus, J. Assoc. Inf. Sci. Technol., 2014, vol. 65, no. 8, pp. 1527–1540.
6. Gureev, V.N. and Mazov, N.A., Citation analysis as a basis for the development of an additional module in antiplagiarism systems, Sci. Tech. Inf. Process., 2013, vol. 40, no. 4, pp. 264–267.
7. Zel’dina, M.M., The ethics of scientific publications: International organizations, Nauchn. Period.: Probl. Resheniya, 2012, no. 6, pp. 16–20.
8. CSE’s White Paper on Promoting Integrity in Scientific Journal Publications, 2012 Update, Scott-Lichter, D., Ed., Wheat Ridge, CO: Council of Science Editors, 2012, 3rd ed.
9. Committee on publication ethics. Flowcharts, 2016. http://publicationethics.org/files/Full%20set%20of% 20flowcharts_0.pdf. Cited March 29, 2016.
10. Harzing, A.W. and Metz, I., Practicing what we preach: The geographic diversity of editorial boards, Manage. Int. Rev., 2013, vol. 53, no. 2, pp. 169–187.
11. Robinson, G. and Dechant, K., Building a business case for diversity, Acad. Manage. Exec., 1997, vol. 11, no. 3, pp. 21–31.
12. Stegmaier, M., Palmer, B., and Van Assendelft, L., Getting on the board: The presence of women in political science journal editorial positions, Polit. Sci. Polit., 2011, vol. 44, no. 4, pp. 799–804.
13. Rosenstreich, D. and Wooliscroft, B., How international are the top academic journals? The case of marketing, Eur. Bus. Rev., 2006, vol. 18, no. 6, pp. 422–436.
14. González-Alcaide, G., Valderrama-Zurián, J.C., and Aleixandre-Benavent, R., The impact factor in non-English-speaking countries, Scientometrics, 2012, vol. 92, no. 2, pp. 297–311.
15. Shelton, R.D., Foland, P., and Gorelskyy, R., Do new SCI journals have a different national bias? Scientometrics, 2009, vol. 79, no. 2, pp. 351–363.
16. Archambault, É., Gagné, É., Côté, G., Larivière, V., and Gingras, Y., Welcome to the linguistic warp zone: Benchmarking scientific output in the social sciences and humanities, 10th Biennial International Conference of the International Society for Scientometrics and Informetrics, ISSI 2005, Stockholm, 2005, vol. 1, pp. 149–158.
17. Larsen, P.O. and von Ins, M., The rate of growth in scientific publication and the decline in coverage provided by Science Citation Index, Scientometrics, 2010, vol. 84, no. 3, pp. 575–603.
18. Garciá-Carpintero, E., Granadino, B., and Plaza, L.M., The representation of nationalities on the editorial boards of international journals and the promotion of the scientific output of the same countries, Scientometrics, 2010, vol. 84, no. 3, pp. 799–811.
19. Dyachenko, E.L., Internationalization of academic journals: Is there still a gap between social and natural sciences?, Scientometrics, 2014, vol. 101, no. 1, pp. 241–255.
20. Nisonger, T.E., The relationship between international editorial board composition and citation measures in political science, business, and genetics journals, Scientometrics, 2002, vol. 54, no. 2, pp. 257–268.
21. Braun, T. and Dióspatonyi, I., World flash on basic research: The counting of core journal gatekeepers as science indicators really counts. The scientific scope of action and strength of nations, Scientometrics, 2005, vol. 62, no. 3, pp. 297–319.
22. Braun, T. and Dióspatonyi, I., Counting the gatekeepers of international science journals a worthwhile science indicator, Curr. Sci., 2005, vol. 89, no. 9, pp. 1548–1551.
23. Saxena, S., Levav, I., Maulik, P., and Saraceno, B., How international are the editorial boards of leading psychiatry journals?, Lancet, 2003, vol. 361, no. 9357, p. 609.
24. Marsh, J., Representation of low- and middle-income countries on editorial boards of psychiatry journals, Eur. Sci. Ed., 2014, vol. 40, no. 2, p. 39.
25. Gureyev, V.N., Mazov, N.A., and Karpenko, L.I., Russian bioscience publications and journals in international bibliometric databases, Ser. Rev., 2015, vol. 41, no. 2, pp. 77–84.
26. Mazov, N.A., Gureev, V.N., and Epov, M.I., Russian publications and journals on earth sciences in international databases, Herald Russ. Acad. Sci., 2015, vol. 85, no. 1, pp. 20–25.
27. Kirillova, O.V., Kuznetsov, A.Yu., Dimentov, A.V., Lebedev, V.V., and Shvartsman, M.E., Categories and criteria of Russian journal evaluation and their development programs, Nauchn. Period.: Probl. Resheniya, 2014, vol. 5, no. 23, pp. 20–34.
28. Braun, T., Dióspatonyi, I., Zsindely, S., and Zádor, E., Gatekeeper index versus impact factor of science journals, Scientometrics, 2007, vol. 71, no 3, pp. 541–543.
29. Science Policies in the European Union: Promoting Excellence through Mainstreaming Gender Equality, Osborn, M., Eds., Brussels: European Commission, 2000.
30. She Figures 2015: Gender in Research and Innovation, Brussels: European Commission, 2016.
31. She Figures 2012: Gender in Research and Innovation, Brussels: European Commission, 2013.
32. She Figures 2009: Gender in Research and Innovation, Brussels: European Commission, 2009.
33. Women, Minorities, and Persons with Disabilities in Science and Engineering, Washington, DC: National Science Foundation, 2015.
34. Paul-Hus, A., Bouvier, R.L., Ni, C., Sugimoto, C.R., Pislyakov, V., and Larivière, V., Forty years of gender disparities in Russian science: A historical bibliometric analysis, Scientometrics, 2014, vol. 102, no. 2, pp. 1541–1553.
35. Lewison, G. and Markusova, V., Female researchers in Russia: Have they become more visible?, Scientometrics, 2011, vol. 89, no. 1, pp. 139–152.
36. Kennedy, B.L., Lin, Y., and Dickstein, L.J., Women on the editorial boards of major journals, Acad. Med., 2001, vol. 76, no. 8, pp. 849–851.
37. Metz, I. and Harzing, A.W., An update of gender diversity in editorial boards: A longitudinal study of management journals, Pers. Rev., 2012, vol. 41, no. 3, pp. 283–300.
38. Morton, M.J. and Sonnad, S.S., Women on professional society and journal editorial boards, J. Natl. Med. Assoc., 2007, vol. 99, no. 7, pp. 764–771.
39. Amrein, K., Langmann, A., Fahrleitner-Pammer, A., Pieber, T.R., and Zollner-Schwetz, I., Women underrepresented on editorial boards of 60 major medical journals, Gender Med., 2011, vol. 8, no. 6, pp. 378–387.
40. Metz, I., Harzing, A.-W., and Zyphur, M.J., Of journal editors and editorial boards: Who are the trailblazers in increasing editorial board gender equality?, Br. J. Manage., 2016. doi 10.1111/1467-8551.12133
41. Metz, I. and Harzing, A.W., Gender diversity in editorial boards of management journals, Acad. Manage. Learn. Educ., 2009, vol. 8, no. 4, pp. 540–557.
42. Opening the Black Box of Editorship, Baruch, Y. Eds., London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2008.
43. Jorg, B., Hollrigl, T., and Sicilia, M.A., Entities and identities in research information systems, in E-Infrastructures for Research and Innovation: Linking Information Systems to Improve Scientific Knowledge Production, Jeffery, K.G. and Dvorak, J., Eds., Praha 10: Zeithamlova Milena Ing-Agentura Action M, 2012, pp. 185–194.
44. Mazov, N.A. and Gureev, V.N., The role of unique identifiers in bibliographic information systems, Sci. Tech. Inf. Process., 2014, vol. 41, no. 3, pp. 206–210.
45. Feldman, D.C., Building and maintaining a strong editorial board and cadre of ad hoc reviewers, in Opening the Black Box of Editorship, Baruch, Y., Eds., London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2008, pp. 68–74.
46. Zsindely, S., Schubert, A., and Braun, T., Citation patterns of editorial gatekeepers in international chemistry journals, Scientometrics, 1982, vol. 4, no. 1, pp. 69–76.
47. Braun, T., Dióspatonyi, I., Zádor, E., and Zsindely, S., Journal gatekeepers indicator-based top universities of the world, of Europe and of 29 countries–a pilot study, Scientometrics, 2007, vol. 71, no. 2, pp. 155–178.
48. SciVal Metrics Guidebook, Colledge, L. and Verlinde, R., Eds., Netherlands: Elsevier, 2014.
49. Schiermeier, Q., Self-publishing editor set to retire, Nature, 2008, vol. 456, no. 7221, p. 432.
50. Walters, W.H., Do editorial board members in library and information science publish disproportionately in the journals for which they serve as board members?, J. Scholarly Publ., 2015, vol. 46, no. 4, pp. 343–354.
51. Bošnjak, L., Puljak, L., Vukojevic, K., and Marušic, A., Analysis of a number and type of publications that editors publish in their own journals: Case study of scholarly journals in Croatia, Scientometrics, 2011, vol. 86, no. 1, pp. 227–233.
52. Novikov, D.A., Compete by “Hirsch’s”?, Vyssh. Obraz. Ross., 2015, no. 2, pp. 5–13.
53. Mazov, N.A. and Gureev, V.N., Publications at any cost?, Vestn. Ross. Akad. Nauk, 2015, vol. 85, no. 7, pp. 627–631.
54. Luty, J., Arokiadass, S.M.R., Easow, J.M., and Anapreddy, J.R., Preferential publication of editorial board members in medical specialty journals, J. Med. Ethics, 2009, vol. 35, no. 3, pp. 200–202.
55. COPE, Editor as author in own journal, 2005. http://publicationethics.org/case/editor-author-ownjournal. Cited March 29, 2016.
56. Frandsen, T.F. and Nicolaisen, J., A lucrative seat at the table: Are editorial board members generally overcited in their own journals?, Proc. ASIST Annual Meeting, 2010, vol. 47, no. 1, pp. 1–8.