[Web4lib] Academic Rank of Authors Publishing in Open Access Journals

[McKiernan, Gerard [LIB]]

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Nowick, Elaine A.  2008.  "Academic Rank of Authors  Publishing in Open
Access Journals."  Agricultural Information Worldwide, v. 1, no. 2, pp.
45-51.

When deciding where to publish their research results, faculty take into
consideration factors such as the prestige and readership of journals.
The weight a journal article will carry is particularly a concern for
pre-tenured faculty members. Previous research has indicated that some
faculty members may have some concerns about publishing in Open Access
journals because of a perceived lack of rigor and reputation of Open
Access titles. In this study, the academic rank of authors publishing in
Open Access and commercial scholarly journals was compared. Most authors
in both Open Access and for-fee journals were full professors. There was
no indication that pre-tenured faculty avoided Open Access titles. In
fact, there was a 

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