Emergent phenomena in scientific publishing: A simulation exercise
نویسندگان
چکیده
We model the academic production process understood as the creation, submission, evaluation and publication of papers: scientists produce manuscripts to the best of their abilities and try to publish them in academic journals, which rely on referees to judge the submissions. The resulting model is able to reproduce several properties of the journal-landscape but also illustrates that even under unrealistically optimistic assumptions the process of scientific publishing will give rise to several universal emergent phenomena for purely mathematical reasons: the efficiency of scientific publishing is delicate and very unstable.
منابع مشابه
Capturing the Multilevel Dynamics of Emergence: Computational Modeling, Simulation, and Virtual Experimentation
Emergent phenomena – those that manifest bottom-up from the psychological characteristics, perceptions, and interactions among individuals – are a fundamental dynamic process in multilevel theory, but have been treated in a very limited way in the research literature. In particular, treatments are largely assumed (rather than observed directly), retrospective, and static. This paper describes a...
متن کاملComparing the Status of Publishing Scientific Journals in State Universities and Islamic Azad University Units
This descriptive-survey study aims to identify the problems of publishing scientific journals in state universities and Islamic Azad Universities. Statistical population includes all academic journals the data of which is registered in www.Magiran.com. Required information were collected using a questionnaire. Results of this research indicate that the problems of publishing scientific journals...
متن کاملIssue 1-1
E mergence, as in the title of this new journal, refers to the arising of novel and coherent structures, patterns, and properties during the process of self-organization in complex systems. Emergent phenomena are conceptualized as occurring on the macro level, in contrast to the micro-level components and processes out of which they arise. In a wide variety of scientific and mathematical fields...
متن کاملGuidelines for selecting journals that avoid fraudulent practices in scholarly publishing
In recent years, scholarly publishing has been faced with many distractive phenomena. Generally, most researchers are unaware of fraudulent practices now common to scholarly publishing and are at risk of becoming a victim of them. Editors also need to have sufficient knowledge about these practices. There are papers that try to increase awareness of authors about fraud in scholarly publishing, ...
متن کاملEmergent Phenomena in a Foreign Exchange Market: Analysis based on an Artificial Market Approach
In this study we propose an artificial market approach, which is a new agent-based approach to foreign exchange market studies. Using this approach, emergent phenomena of markets were explained. This approach consists of fieldwork, construction of a multi-agent model, and computer simulation of a market. The simulation results show that the emergent phenomena can be explained by a phase transit...
متن کامل