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Subject: 	[Sigmetrics] CfP: Special issue on the Reward System of 
Science (Aslib Journal of Information Management)
Date: 	Wed, 10 Aug 2016 18:35:54 +0000
From: 	Adele Paul-Hus <adele.paulhus at gmail.com>
To: 	sigmetrics at mail.asis.org



*Please forward to interested colleagues and other listservs*

*The Reward System of Science: Special issue call for papers from Aslib 
Journal of Information Management 
<http://www.emeraldgrouppublishing.com/librarians/writing/calls.htm?id=6818>*

This special issue, to be published in 2017, is guest edited by Adèle 
Paul-Hus and Nadine Desrochers, University of Montreal, and Sarah de 
Rijcke and Alex Rushforth, Leiden University.

Inquiries can be sent directly to Adèle Paul-Hus 
(adele.paul-hus at umontreal.ca <mailto:adele.paul-hus at umontreal.ca>).

*What is the focus of this special issue?*

The transformations of scholarly communication and sharing of results 
have led to important modifications in the landscape of scientific 
recognition in the last decades. Hyperauthorship, the inflation of 
author numbers, continues to reach new heights, bringing new debates 
around the concepts of scientific credit, responsibility, and 
accountability. Questions regarding scientific signature in terms of 
“who did what” and who should get his or her name in the byline (or be 
thanked in the acknowledgements section) have led to changes in 
editorial policies and requirements for contributorship statements from 
certain journals. Citations and derived indicators are now being 
ubiquitously used to promote publications and evaluate researchers. 
Moreover, ongoing research on other paratextual elements, such as 
acknowledgements, has not yet yielded clear answers as to their role and 
value in researchers’ evaluations.

New sets of usage metrics have emerged from social media activities in 
the context of scholarly communication; commonly coined as “altmetrics”, 
social media metrics comprise a range of indicators based on the 
measurement of online activity. However, their heterogeneity has 
generated discussions regarding their meaning and value in the reward 
system of science. It goes without saying that this changing and 
complex—not to mention pressure-filled—landscape has a direct effect on 
the behavior and choices made by researchers. Researchers are being 
pulled in different directions by the changing practices of scholarly 
communication and publication, the multiplication of metrics, and new 
incentives to produce societally relevant research. Therefore, a 
discussion around the effects of indicators and the system they are 
shaping is both necessary and timely.

For this special issue, we invite quantitative, qualitative, mixed 
methods, and theoretical research papers focusing on the various 
elements of the reward system of science. Papers may also discuss how 
these elements combine, the tensions inherent to the accumulation of 
credit, and measures of a scholar’s “value” or “worth”. Potential topics 
include but are not limited to:

  * Credit distribution in science: authorship, contributorship,
    acknowledgements, etc.
  * Disciplinary differences in credit distribution
  * Disciplinary differences in research evaluation
  * Disciplinary differences in researchers’ careers
  * The challenges of measuring interdisciplinary research
  * The ethics of credit distribution in science
  * Editorial policies and disciplinary guidelines in credit distribution
  * The relationship between research funding, scientific activities,
    and research practices
  * The relationship between scientific activities, research outputs,
    and the indicators used to measure them
  * The roles and influences of citations and derived indicators on
    scientific activities and research practices
  * The relationship between social media presence, acts, and scientific
    activity or evaluation
  * Social media policies in the scientific field
  * Gaming or abuse of bibliometrics and/or social media metrics
  * The ethics of bibliometrics and/or social media metrics
  * Existing and changing relationships between bibliometrics and peer
    review

*Submissions*

Papers should focus on the reward system of science and one or many of 
its various constitutive elements. All methodological approaches are 
welcome. Case studies and proof-of-concept studies should present new 
and unique findings and highlight future research possibilities and 
developments. Opinion pieces will not be considered for the special issue.
Papers should be 4,000 to 9,000 words in length (including references) 
and in accordance with the journal’s author guidelines 
<http://www.emeraldgrouppublishing.com/products/journals/author_guidelines.htm?id=ajim>.

Submissions to Aslib Journal of Information Management are made using 
ScholarOne Manuscripts, the online submission and peer review system. 
Registration and access is available here 
<http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/ajoim>. Full information and guidance 
on using ScholarOne Manuscripts is available at the Emerald ScholarOne 
Manuscripts Support Centre <http://msc.emeraldinsight.com>.

For all additional information prior to submission, please contact Adèle 
Paul-Hus (adele.paul-hus at umontreal.ca <mailto:adele.paul-hus at umontreal.ca>).

*About the Journal*

Aslib Journal of Information Management 
<http://www.emeraldgrouppublishing.com/products/journals/journals.htm?id=AJIM> 
(AJIM; previously: Aslib Proceedings, ISSN: 2050-3806) is a 
peer-reviewed international journal providing key insights into the 
latest international developments in the research and practice of 
information management and information science.

*Schedule dates and submission deadlines*

Paper submission: 15 December, 2016
Notice of review results: 15 February, 2017
Revisions due: 15 March, 2017
Publication: Aslib Journal of Information Management, volume 69, issue 
4, 2017 (August 2017)

Adèle Paul-Hus
PhD Candidate
Chaire de recherche du Canada sur les transformations de la 
communication savante
École de bibliothéconomie et des sciences de l'information (EBSI)
Université de Montréal
adele.paul-hus at umontreal.ca <mailto:adele.paul-hus at umontreal.ca>
crc.ebsi.umontreal.ca <http://crc.ebsi.umontreal.ca/>

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