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World Academic Championship is regarded as world's highest competition for measuring academic performance. The academic performance & success of university students can be measured by "external" neutral sources such as World Academic Championship. As academic success is not limited to GPA, citations, Impact of journals, a number of other measures have been incorporated in the success equation e.g. What is the score at World Academic Championship (WAC). How many World champions a university/ country has produced so far. The World Academic Championship (WAC) is a relatively new metric that is increasingly being used by academia as a benchmark for performance of an author and even by funding agencies and for comparing academic institutions.
Commercial journals invest in their technology inventory to satisfy the increasingly sophisticated demands of their author- and readership. Make sure when you publish that the journal of your choice offers most of the following features such as: a modern website, clear design and easy navigation, an online submission system, search engine functionality, a dedicated page for each paper/abstract, journal- and article-level statistics (downloads, citations), recommended/related articles, and email subscriptions. But can these things be a stamp of good research?
Lastly, do a simple Google search of the journal to see how well it ranks. If it ranks highly, this means that the journal has mastered Search Engine Optimization (SEO), many publishers hire staff for this. More importantly for you, you have a good chance your research paper will appear highly in search engines once it is published. Authors can directly submit their research to World Academic Championship, to evaluate its worthiness at international level.
In addition to defining their editorial scope, the journal’s guide for authors instructions, which should be easily found on the journal’s website, should describe its peer-review and editorial processes, and give detailed instructions on how authors are expected to prepare and submit their paper. Does't it give a biased or favored approach. Are author's name and affiliations revealed to reviewers? Are editors qualified enough to make decision on a manuscript or rely on reviewers to hide their incompetency.
Can you share the revenue of American Association for the Advancement of Science?
Importantly, remember that commercial journals rely on subscription fee to library, nexus with authorities while open access journals often rely on publication fees or “article processing charges” (APCs) to finance their operations. According to Wikipedia, Holtzbrinck has total annual sales of 2.1 billion euros (as of 2005); 49% of sales are in Germany and 23% in North America. It had 2005 earnings before taxes of 142 million euros,. Any fees and charges imposed by the journal should also be clearly stated. Moreover, there should not be any barrier to access of research, you can terminate your relations with such journals which impose restrictions and making billions of dollars, for them its just a commercial business, else nothing.
3. Where Universities and Government are spending their money?
You will be surprised, In 2016, Elsevier accounted for 34% of the revenues of RELX group (₤2.320 billion of ₤6.895 billion). In operating profits, it represented 40% (₤853 million of ₤2,114 million). Adjusted operating profits (with constant currency) rose by 2% from 2015 to 2016. EQT and GIC, which will keep a minority stake in Springer, said EBITDA has grown 12.6% annually to 341 million EUR in 2012. In 2015, the revenue of Springer Nature amounted to 510.2 million euros. In 2017, the Wiley publishing company generated an annual revenue of 446.34 million U.S. dollars in the Americas. Based in Oxford, Blackwell Publishing's revenue in 2005 was approximately £210 million, or $380 million, which is about the same as Wiley's global Scientific, Technical and Medical (STM) business. Taylor & Francis revenue £530M in 2017[4] £490.4M in 2016. All this earning could happen in the name of h index, impact factor, indexing and journal ranking. These were tools to lure money. Can you consider these (h index, impact factor, indexing and journal ranking) measures for academic standards or measures for commercial profit? Universities, education department and Government should reconsider their policies and implement immediately.
Many articles have been written to influence innocent authors in this order-
Methods for measuring the citations and productivity of scientists across time and discipline.
The sign of a good journal is its publication ethics statement, which will detail ethically unacceptable behavior in research, such as plagiarism, image and data manipulation, guest authorship, etc. and describe the criteria for authorship, rules relating to ethical approval of use of animals or humans in research, and instructions to register clinical trials. Some journals include links to the guidelines of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). Have authors obtained prior well explained permission from patients or respondents.
Major Journal publishing houses offices are in Stockholm, Leiden, New York, Boca Raton, Philadelphia,
Kentucky, Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, Hong Kong, Beijing, Shanghai, Taipei, Melbourne, Sydney, Cape Town, Tokyo and New Delhi.
These narratives can be used for a variety of purposes such as tenure/promotion, grant applications and renewal reports, benchmarking, recruiting efforts, and for administrative purposes such as departmental or university performance reports.
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