Re: What Can and Should Be Mandated

From: Arthur Sale <ahjs_at_ozemail.com.au>
Date: Sun, 5 Nov 2006 17:32:01 +1100

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> ACCESS-FORUM_at_LISTSERVER.SIGMAXI.ORG] On Behalf Of Stevan Harnad
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> Mandated
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> On Sat, 4 Nov 2006, Jean-Claude Guédon wrote:
>
> > Many journals of a "national" reach...
> > tend not to appear in [Ulrich's or ISI]
>
> The question still stands: What percentage of *those* journals
> is subsidised?

Just to keep making my original point, the data for Australia is 0%.

In other words, there are *no* subsidized journals in Australia. However
most Australian published journals appear in Ulrich's or ISI.

Australia accounts for 3% of the world's refereed journal articles according
to ISI, and my estimate is that more than 90% of the articles are published
offshore (conservatively based on a rough analysis of the national journals
(much less than 3% share) which seem to average 60% local authorship).

I expect the data is different for non-English speaking countries. But then
science is largely conducted in lingua anglais. Topics of local interest
(culture, history, flora, fauna) don't behave the same.

Arthur Sale
Received on Sun Nov 05 2006 - 14:33:03 GMT