Research councils' requirements could bankrupt academic journals

Human research review committee requirements in medical journals.

PURPOSE Independent ethical review committees safeguard participants in human research. The purpose of this study was to describe the current ethical guidelines for human research requirements in the Instructions to Authors of the English language medical journals previously studied in 1995. METHODS The instructions to authors of English language medicine journals from the Abridged Index Medi...

Academic Journals on the Internet

While much research examines the internet's impact on 'electronic business' information technology may have an equally profound impact on what might be called 'electronic science'. Although the internet has the potential of revolutionizing research, it is not clear in which ways the structure of journals and the associated research processes will be affected. The purpose of this article is to p...

Institutional Requirements for Academic Research in Public Administration

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Blind Peer Review by Academic Journals

A follow-up ranking of academic journals

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to develop a ranking of knowledge management and intellectual capital academic journals. Design/methodology/approach – A revealed preference, also referred to as citation impact, method was utilized. Citation data were obtained from Google Scholar by using Harzing’s Publish or Perish tool. The h-index and the g-index were employed to develop a ranking list...