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<td>[Sigmetrics] CfP: Special issue on the Reward System of
Science (Aslib Journal of Information Management)</td>
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<td>Wed, 10 Aug 2016 18:35:54 +0000</td>
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<td>Adele Paul-Hus <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:adele.paulhus@gmail.com"><adele.paulhus@gmail.com></a></td>
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<p class="inbox-inbox-MsoNormal"><b><span
style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"tahoma","sans-serif""><a
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href="http://www.emeraldgrouppublishing.com/librarians/writing/calls.htm?id=6818">The
Reward System of Science: Special issue call for papers
from Aslib Journal of
Information Management</a></span></b></p>
<p class="inbox-inbox-MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"tahoma","sans-serif"">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.</span></p>
<p class="inbox-inbox-MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"tahoma","sans-serif"">Inquiries
can be sent directly to Adèle Paul-Hus (<a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:adele.paul-hus@umontreal.ca">adele.paul-hus@umontreal.ca</a>).</span></p>
<p class="inbox-inbox-MsoNormal"><b><span
style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"tahoma","sans-serif"">What
is the focus of this special issue?</span></b></p>
<p class="inbox-inbox-MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"tahoma","sans-serif"">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.</span></p>
<p class="inbox-inbox-MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"tahoma","sans-serif"">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.<br>
<br>
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:</span></p>
<ul type="disc">
<li class="inbox-inbox-MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"tahoma","sans-serif"">Credit
distribution in science: authorship, contributorship,
acknowledgements, etc.</span></li>
<li class="inbox-inbox-MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"tahoma","sans-serif"">Disciplinary
differences in credit distribution</span></li>
<li class="inbox-inbox-MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"tahoma","sans-serif"">Disciplinary
differences in research evaluation</span></li>
<li class="inbox-inbox-MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"tahoma","sans-serif"">Disciplinary
differences in researchers’ careers</span></li>
<li class="inbox-inbox-MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"tahoma","sans-serif"">The
challenges of measuring interdisciplinary research</span></li>
<li class="inbox-inbox-MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"tahoma","sans-serif"">The
ethics of credit distribution in science</span></li>
<li class="inbox-inbox-MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"tahoma","sans-serif"">Editorial
policies and disciplinary guidelines in credit
distribution</span></li>
<li class="inbox-inbox-MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"tahoma","sans-serif"">The
relationship between research funding, scientific
activities, and research practices</span></li>
<li class="inbox-inbox-MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"tahoma","sans-serif"">The
relationship between scientific activities, research
outputs, and the indicators used to measure them</span></li>
<li class="inbox-inbox-MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"tahoma","sans-serif"">The
roles and influences of citations and derived indicators
on scientific activities and research practices</span></li>
<li class="inbox-inbox-MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"tahoma","sans-serif"">The
relationship between social media presence, acts, and
scientific activity or evaluation</span></li>
<li class="inbox-inbox-MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"tahoma","sans-serif"">Social
media policies in the scientific field</span></li>
<li class="inbox-inbox-MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"tahoma","sans-serif"">Gaming
or abuse of bibliometrics and/or social media metrics</span></li>
<li class="inbox-inbox-MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"tahoma","sans-serif"">The
ethics of bibliometrics and/or social media metrics</span></li>
<li class="inbox-inbox-MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"tahoma","sans-serif"">Existing
and changing relationships between bibliometrics and peer
review</span></li>
</ul>
<p class="inbox-inbox-MsoNormal"><b><span
style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"tahoma","sans-serif"">Submissions</span></b></p>
<p class="inbox-inbox-MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"tahoma","sans-serif"">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.<br>
Papers should be 4,000 to 9,000 words in length (including
references) and in
accordance with the <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.emeraldgrouppublishing.com/products/journals/author_guidelines.htm?id=ajim">journal’s
author guidelines</a>.</span></p>
<p class="inbox-inbox-MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"tahoma","sans-serif"">Submissions
to Aslib Journal of Information Management are made using
ScholarOne Manuscripts, the online submission and peer
review system.
Registration and access is available <a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/ajoim">here</a>.
Full information and
guidance on using ScholarOne Manuscripts is available at the
Emerald ScholarOne
Manuscripts <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://msc.emeraldinsight.com">Support Centre</a>.</span></p>
<p class="inbox-inbox-MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"tahoma","sans-serif"">For
all additional information prior to submission, please
contact Adèle
Paul-Hus (<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:adele.paul-hus@umontreal.ca">adele.paul-hus@umontreal.ca</a>).</span></p>
<p class="inbox-inbox-MsoNormal"><b><span
style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"tahoma","sans-serif"">About
the Journal</span></b></p>
<p class="inbox-inbox-MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"tahoma","sans-serif""><a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.emeraldgrouppublishing.com/products/journals/journals.htm?id=AJIM">Aslib
Journal of Information Management</a> (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.</span></p>
<p class="inbox-inbox-MsoNormal"><b><span
style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"tahoma","sans-serif"">Schedule
dates and submission deadlines</span></b></p>
<p class="inbox-inbox-MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"tahoma","sans-serif"">Paper
submission: 15 December, 2016<br>
Notice of review results: 15 February, 2017<br>
Revisions due: 15 March, 2017<br>
Publication: Aslib Journal of Information Management, volume
69, issue 4, 2017
(August 2017)</span></p>
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lang="FR-CA">Adèle Paul-Hus<br>
<span style="color:black">PhD Candidate <br>
Chaire de recherche du Canada sur les transformations de
la communication
savante<br>
École de bibliothéconomie et des sciences de l'information
(EBSI)<br>
Université de Montréal</span><br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:adele.paul-hus@umontreal.ca" target="_blank">adele.paul-hus@umontreal.ca</a><br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://crc.ebsi.umontreal.ca/" target="_blank">crc.ebsi.umontreal.ca</a></span></p>
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