Publishing Trends in Political Science: How Publishing Houses, Geographical Positions, and International Collaboration Shapes Academic Knowledge Production

Academic publishing is electronic publishing

Derk Haank began by saying that he wanted to keep his presentation simple and would make only a few statements. The first of these was to say that, although it might be stating the obvious, academic publishing is electronic publishing. It has been remarkable how quickly things have progressed since the invention of the Web, and an EC study recently recognised that the revolution in electronic p...

What academic publishing can do for science?

Inequality of publishing performance and international collaboration in physics

Using a database of 1.4 million papers indexed by Web of Science, we examined the global trends in publication inequality and international collaboration in physics. The publication output and citations received by authors hosted in each country were taken into account. Although inequality decreased over time, further progress toward equality has somewhat abated in recent years. The skewedness ...

Selected papers from the international conference Academic Publishing in Europe: The Impact of Publishing

The fourth APE – Academic Publishing in Europe – Conference in the Berlin Brandenburg Academy of Sciences, was about ‘the impact of publishing’. The APE 2009 spectrum varied from usage and users, peer reviewing and quality assurance, branding, funding and investing, business models, new types of information, enabling technologies, search engines, to research excellence, dissemination, access an...

Trends in Electronic Publishing

The parallel development of information and communication technologies, and the pervasiveness of electronic information fuelled by the Internet, has provided electronic publishing with new explosive growth opportunities. Electronic publishing (EP), from its initial mainly text-based stand-alone publication base, is fast transforming into a resource set of interactive publications endowed with r...