[Journal] RE: ISBNs for FOSS4G2008 Proceedings

[Daniel Ames]

For one thing, I think the peer-review system would have to be the default,
not the option... Secondly, we'd need to get the journal into one of the
citation indexing systems so that it gets a "citation index" - a critical
measure of any Journal's success.  Basically that number tells something
like the number of citations to articles in the journal divided by the
number of articles published.  This is a measure of the journal's "Impact".
The idea is to go for a higher impact factor by seeing people cite stuff
published in the journal... - Dan

On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 8:37 PM, OSGeo Tyler Mitchell
<tmitchell at osgeo.org>wrote:

> Got a couple offline responses, I should probably clarify.  We have the
> ISSN number already - a number for serial publications.  Ideally we would
> get the OSGeo Journal somehow aligned with the academic circles enough that
> when we do peer review, it is good enough for them to accept it.  Any tips
> from that angle?
>
> Tyler
>
> On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 4:11 PM, Tyler Mitchell (OSGeo)
>> <tmitchell at osgeo.org> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi all,
>>> Just a snippit from some other communication I had recently - discussing
>>> how
>>> they plan to do the proceedings for this years FOSS4G academic track.  Is
>>> anyone familiar with how we might be able to get OSGeo Journal accredited
>>> using one the sources mentioned?
>>>
>>> Begin forwarded message:
>>>
>>> Unfortunately, for the proceedings of an academic conference to be
>>>> "Recognised Research Output" in South Africa, they must have an ISBN
>>>> (when
>>>> published as a stand-alone volume) or be published in an accredited
>>>> journal,
>>>> which is a journal appearing in at least one of the following:
>>>> (1) The Sciences Citation Index of the Institute of Scientific
>>>> Information
>>>> (ISI)
>>>> (2) The Social Sciences Citation Index of the ISI
>>>> (3) The Arts and Humanities Citation Index of the ISI
>>>> (4) The International Bibliography of Social Sciences (IBSS)
>>>> (5) The South African Department of Education's list of Approved South
>>>> African Journals.
>>>>
>>>
>>>
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Idaho State University - Idaho Falls
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