Global Trends in Neuroscience Publishing Background and Developments

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1 Global Trends in Neuroscience Publishing Background and Developments Presented by: Paul Carton PhD, Senior Publisher Elsevier S&T Journals Date: July 2008 Presentation created by James Milne 2007 / 2008

2 Presentation About Elsevier Scientific Publishing General Background General Trends Trends from Japan Open Access issues Publishing ethics issues 2

3 ABOUT ELSEVIER

4 About Elsevier House of Elzevir founded 1580 Elsevier as publishing house established 1880 NOW 2600 journals 250,000 articles a year 8.8 million articles on ScienceDirect, going back to 1823 (The Lancet) 386 million downloads a year by 10 million users (over 1 billion downloads since launch) Galileo s Discorsi e Dimostrazioni Matematiche (1638) 4

5 Elsevier and Scientific Publishing All scientific research articles Elsevier by disciplines Blackwell Other Commercial Informa Wiley University Presses Other Environmental Science Earth Sciences Social Sciences Mathematics & Computer Science Life Sciences Springer Elsevier Physics Learned Societies Chemistry & Chemical Engineering Materials Science & Engineering 1.2 million English language research articles published globally each year 250,000+ English language research articles published with Elsevier every year 5

6 Elsevier and Scientific Publishing Mathemati cs & Computer Sci ences Social Sc i ences Envi r onmental Sci ences Ear th Sciences Physics Heal th Sci ence Other Li f e Sci ence Chemi str y & Chemi cal Engineer ing Bi ol ogi cal Sci ences Neur oscience Phar macology & Toxicology M ater i al s Sci ence & Engi neer i ng 6

7 Elsevier: Portfolio Overview Journals journals, around 1400 listed in ISI Accessed by 10 million researchers globally All journals available on ScienceDirect Books new titles published every year Imprints: Elsevier, Saunders, Mosby, Academic Press, Focal Press, 6000 books online via ScienceDirect, including 51 MRWs and 300+ book series Electronic products Scopus: >14,000 journals abstracted ScienceDirect: over 1 million downloads from India in 2007 EMBASE & MDConsult databases 7

8 SCIENTIFIC PUBLISHING

9 Why have Scientific Publishing? Communication of research results and discoveries between scientists Sounds straightforward 9

10 Why have Scientific Publishing? Certification - assuring quality and accuracy of published research (through peer review) Registration - attributing who conducted the research Dissemination - making the information available, worldwide Archiving - ensuring content available in perpetuity 10

11 Why have Scientific Publishing? Certification - assuring quality and accuracy of published research (through peer review) Registration - attributing who conducted the research Dissemination - making the information available, worldwide Archiving - ensuring content available in perpetuity Author Needs Reader Needs Research Scientists are both authors + readers of Information 11

12 Peer Review Typesetter / Printer Scientific community: Accepted manuscripts submission Publisher author proofs Published Journal Issues Library editor review referee reader Authors write Reviewers comment Editors decide Readers read 12

13 The Journal and the Scientific Community Publishing Professionals (often ex-scientists) Publishers Journal Editor-in-Chief Research Scientists Publishing Editors Handling Editors Advisory Editors Efficient Publication Commercial Operation Investment in Developments Independent & Impartial Scientific Assessment of Quality Leading Specialists in Field 13

14 STM Publishing Industry Overview (STM = Scientific, Technical & Medical) 14

15 TRENDS IN JOURNAL PUBLISHING

16 Current Trends - Journals Final migration from print to online Greater integration and depth of content Linking Backfiles (archival issues online) Further increase in usage Increased speed of publication Greater number of submissions Experiments with alternative publishing models Open Access / Author Pays (approx. 1% of papers) 16

17 Print to Online Benefits For researchers Remote, desktop access Fast search Interlinked articles efunctions, eg alerts For librarians Easier collection management Usage data per journal Reduced storage space Staff efficiencies = print = print + electronic = eonly 17

18 ScienceDirect Articles Downloads 386 million downloads overall 1 million every day 35 million from neuroscience >1 every second 2,000,000 1,800,000 1,600,000 1,400,000 Full-text article downloads 1,200,000 1,000, ,000 All Neuroscience 600, , ,000 0 Jan-07 Feb-07 Mar-07 Apr-07 May-07 Jun-07 Jul-07 Aug-07 Sep-07 Oct-07 Nov-07 Dec-07 18

19 Unique Users of ScienceDirect Example: Brain Research J J A S O N D J F M A M J J A S O N D J F M A M J J A S O N D J F M A M J J A S

20 Worldwide Articles Published Year

21 TRENDS FROM JAPAN

22 Japan and Science Publishers Elsevier Elsevier Others Others Wiley- Blackwell Wiley- Blackwell Springer APS AIP ACS Springer Taylor-Francis Kluwer APS AIP ACS Kluwer Taylor-Francis Article Share (quantity) Citation Share (quality?) 22

23 Japan and Neuroscience Articles Articles Citations Other Wolter s Kluwer AMER PHYSIOLOGICAL SOC Other OXFORD UNIV PRESS OXFORD UNIV PRESS AMER PHYSIOLOGICAL SOC Holtzbr inck ELSEVIER Spr inger ELSEVIER Wolter s Kluwer Holtzbr inck SOC NEUROSCIENCE Spr inger SOC NEUROSCIENCE Wiley-Blackwell Wi l ey-bl ackwel l Article Share (quantity) Citation Share (quality) 23

24 Measuring Quality of Published Articles We consider relative impact (citations) per paper: If the world average for citations to neuroscience papers is 2.0 over a two year period And the average for Japanese authored neuroscience papers is 1.9 Then Japanese papers in neuroscience have a relative impact of 0.95 (i.e. slightly below the world average ) We can use this measure to look at trends: per country, per subject area, over time 24

25 Japan all fields of research INTERNATIONAL AVERAGE = Relative Impact (World Ave=1.0) Year

26 Japan individual subject areas Relative Impact of Fields within Japan Better than International standard INTERNATIONAL AVERAGE = Immunology Molecular Biology & Genetics Space Science Biology & Biochemistry Neurosciences & Behavior Microbiology Clinical Medicine Chemistry Pharmacology Physics Geosciences Ecology/Environment Plant & Animal Science Materials Science Agricultural Sciences Psychology/Psychiatry Engineering Social Sciences general Mathematics Economics & Business Computer Science Education Lower than International standard Relative Impact

27 Comparing countries ( ) France (00 05) Germany (00 05) Field weighted relative impact South Korea (00 05) World average impact across all fields Brazil (00 06) India (00-06) In04 In03 In01 In02 In00 In06 In05 Ch02 Ch00 Ch01 Russia (00 06) Ch03 Ch04 Ch05 Japan (00 06) Ch Papers per year China (00-06) 27

28 Articles Published by Elsevier 80,000 70, ,000 50,000 40,000 30,000 20,000 10,000 0 India Canada Spain Italy Germany France UK Japan China USA TOP 10 COUNTRIES 28

29 Articles Published by Elsevier 25,000 20, ,000 10,000 5,000 0 India Canada Spain Italy Germany France UK Japan China TOP 10 COUNTRIES (excluding USA) 29

30 Who are downloading scientific papers? Geographic split for Brain Research; Neuroscience Research; All Neuroscience journals Others 32% CHINA 10% FRANCE 3% GERMANY 2% INDIA 1% JAPAN 17% INDIA 1% GERMANY 3% JAPAN 8% FRANCE 3% Other 32% UNITED KINGDOM 6% UNITED STATES 28% Others 35% UNITED KINGDOM 7% CHINA 8% FRANCE 4% GERMANY 4% INDIA 1% JAPAN 7% CHINA 8% UNITED KINGDOM 9% UNITED STATES 39% UNITED STATES 32% 30

31 Japanese Research Neurosciences & Behaviour 5y [Relative] Citation Impact of Japanese articles in ISI Category Neurosciences & Behaviour vs. World average (1.0). Shows positive trend in recent years

32 Summary Japan is #3 in World, in terms of number of papers published [7%]. Slight decline during last few years. Overall, the quality of research papers from Japan is steadily rising Biomedical sciences and Neurosciences are above international standard in terms of citations In Neuroscience, Japan is #2 or 3 in terms of accessing published articles 32

33 Thank you for your attention British Museum, Great Court with Reading Room Hammersmith Riverside, London Paul Carton PhD Senior Publisher S&T Life Science Journals Elsevier Ltd, London, UK 33