A Comparison Of Medical And Social Science Journal Selection In An Open-Access Environment – Pubrica
                     A Comparison of Medical and
Social Science Journal Selection
Factors in an Open-Access
Environment
An Academic presentation by
Dr. Nancy Agnes, Head, Technical 
Operations, Pubrica
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TODAY'S DISCUSSION
Outline
In 
brief
Introductio
n
The present study has three primary 
objectives
Factors in publication outlet selection
Correlations between journal selection 
factors
Conclusion
About 
Pubrica
IN 
BRIEF
The increasing number of journals 
makes it
challenging to choose the best place for 
publishing a
Tmhaisn uiss cerixpat.cerbated further by the selection 
criteria
that may differ from one field to the next.
As a result, adequate cross-disciplinary 
research is
essential to fully comprehend the specific 
challenges
that dominate a particular sector in journal 
finder
service. Contd..
.
Using the responses to a global survey of 235 open access journal 
writers,
the current study analyses the factors that impact publication 
selection in
mTheed ificnindein agnsd d tehme osoncsitaral tsec iethnacte sw.riters in both fields value 'peer 
reviewed'
status the highest while paying relatively more minor 
attention to the
jTohuorsnea li'sn  'tnhuem fibeeldr  ooff  myeeadriclyin seu, bonsc trhibe eortsh.e' r hand, give 
significantly more
weight to (1) the impact factor, (2) the journal's inclusion in 
abstracting
and indexing services, (3) the prestige of the publisher, and 
(4) online
submission with tracking facility when compared to authors in 
the social
sciences.
INTRODUCT
ION
In terms of academic knowledge creation, 
publications
reduce research and identify and fill knowledge 
gaps,
Cadovmapnlceitningg t hteh essceh odluatrileys c oism dmiffiucnuitlyt .despite the 
significance of
publishing unless the author chooses the 
appropriate
Ipnu bthliec astcihoonla srilyte w. orld, the process of selecting a 
scientific
journal finder good platform for publishing an 
article is
eThssee nmtieaal.sures an author must take to select a 
suitable
location are dependent on a variety of circumstances.Contd
...
The type of article (e.g., study, review, brief communication), the subject on 
which it
was written, and the format of the publication venue (e.g., book, 
conference, journal)
aArse  aa lrl efsaucltto, rksn toow cionngs widheirc.h variables of journal selection apply to a particular
 author is
crucial for choosing the right publication path.
THE PRESENT STUDY 
HAS THREE
PRIMARY OBJECTIVES
To determine the variations between medical 
and
social science writers' article publishing 
cTohnec geornasl .is to figure out what the underlying
categories are that drive the journal selection 
criteria.
To condense specific previously established 
journal
selection criteria into a smaller number of 
underlying
categories.
FACTORS IN 
PUBLICATION
OUTLET SELECTION
Many research has been undertaken to 
investigate the
factors that influence the selection of 
appropriate
Mpuobslti caotf iotnh essoeu rcperosg. rammes are focused on a 
single
subject, such as management, health, real 
estate, and
sTohcei aiml spcoierntacnecse.  of various rare journal selection 
issues,
such as the capacity to match an author's 
objectives,
existing relationship with the journal staff, 
publishing Contd
dependability, and the desire to assist the ...
organisation
that supports the journal, is highlighted in the 
essay.

Journal Selection Services also mentions 
applicability in
terms of text-level (primary, broad, or extremely 
particular).
GSiomoilgalre s tuSdciheso lraarre lyw naso teu tsheeds e tjoo urfinnadl isnegle ction 
veadritiaobrilaelss. and
conference papers in addition to original research 
articles
pTou bfilnisdh ecodm inp ajoruarbnlea lss.tudies, we utilised the key query 
words'
publishing aspects,' 'article submission,' 'journal 
selection,
"scholarly communication,' and manuscript venues,' 
aCsr owsesl-lreferencing of included Research resulted 
ians  tthheeir various combinations.
discovery of a few articles.
Table 1. Selection 
criteria.
CORRELATIONS BETWEEN 
JOURNAL
SELECTION FACTORS
Furthermore, several scholars have questioned 
how
correlation results for ordinal variables should be 
Ainst ear prreestueldt,. polychoric correlations were used to 
determine
the relationship between the variables.
Several studies have demonstrated that the 
polychoric
correlation is superior to other approaches for 
analysing
correlation findings based on ordinal data from a 
Likert scale. Contd
...
Several studies have also employed polychoric correlation to examine the 
relationship between
variables evaluated on a Likert scale.
The findings reveal reasonably high positive correlations between two pairs of 
variables in the
medical area. In addition to these two pairs, another favourable association was 
discovered in
the social sciences—the best journal finder for research, with values more than 0.5.
CONCLUSI
ON
According to the findings of this study, 
medical
authors value the presence of a 
publication in
abstracting and indexing services more 
Sthearnvices like MEDLINE and EMBASE, 
fsoorcial sciences academics.
example, are essential resource finding 
tools. In
the social sciences, on the other 
hand,
abstracting and indexing services arCeontd
significantly less well-established. ...
Due to significant restrictions, superior services such as the Social 
Science Citation
Index (SSCI) index articles from a variety of topic areas and may not be 
considered
as devoted and well-established indexing services in the disciplines of the 
social
sciences.
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