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Re: Do academic journals threaten advancement of science?

I share this suspicion of overemphasis on metrics. Fortunately, it
has not made great inroads yet into the arena of humanities journal
publishing. Maybe for once humanities may benefit by not following
the road that STM journals took!

Sanford G. Thatcher
Executive Editor for Social Sciences and Humanities
Pennsylvania State University Press


>A long article from Zoe Corbyn, in the British Times Higher
>Education Supplement for August 13th with the above title has
>some extremely cogent comments regarding the present situation in
>academic publishing and the impact of the increasing trends to
>measure research both individually and institutionally through
>bibliometric and other numeric processes.
>
>http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=26&storycode=407705&c=1
>
>
>Colin Steele
>Emeritus Fellow
>The Australian National University