RE: How many (peer reveiwed) journals are there?

["Sally Morris \(Morris Associates\)" <sally@morris-assocs.demon.co.uk>]

Not so.  ISSNs can also be assigned to series.

Sally Morris
Consultant, Morris Associates (Publishing Consultancy)
Clapham, Worthing, West Sussex BN13 3UU, UK
Email:  sally@morris-assocs.demon.co.uk

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Subject: Re: How many (peer reveiwed) journals are there?

Maybe it's a journal if it has an ISSN?

Sandy Thatcher

>I'm sorry to be coy, but I don't understand how this question is
>meaningful.  Journals are defined (mostly) by the community they
>serve. While we like to think of journals as collections of
>articles, "article" also requires some definition.  And while we
>consider peer-review to be a universal standard of rigor, it is
>based on *whose* peers you are talking about.  A journal can
>still be a journal even though it publishes so infrequently, one
>would question whether calling it a journal is even appropriate.
>Look at scores of BioMedCentral or Bentham Science journals that
>seem to maintain their presence in spite of attracting no
>articles.
>
>To the question of "what is a journal anyway?" we should add
>"what is the sound of one hand clapping?" and ponder this for
>some time.
>
>--Phil Davis