A new Journal in the field of Innovation Management Editorial Kick-off meeting @ CERN 31 st May 2016
Agenda for the day 0830-0900 Breakfast-coffee 0900-1030 Official launch of the CIJ Welcome to IdeaSquare/CERN Markus Nordberg Introduction to CIJ Saku Mäkinen and Valeria Brancolini On Experimentation, Innovativeness, Strategy, Julian Birkinshaw, London Business School (1015-1030) 1030-1100 coffee break/informal discussions 1100-1230 1 st Editorial Board meeting: Round table discussion 1230-14 lunch 1400-1500 ATLAS experiment Atlas tour at CERN, Harri Toivonen 1515-1630 Wrap-up and summary Importance of Experimentation in Creating Meanings, Roberto Verganti, Politecnico di Milano (1515-1530) CERN view on Experiments and Innovation, Charlotte Warakaulle, CERN (1530-1600) Summary of discussions so far and steps forward, Saku Mäkinen/Valeria Brancolini <Break before dinner > 1900 Dinner for the Editorial Board Place: Armoures (Old Town, Geneva)
Idea s @ CERN Markus Nordberg CERN
Introduction to CIJ Saku Mäkinen University of Helsinki / Tampere University of Technology / CERN
General thoughts on CIJ Building on legacy of scientific exploration That is why CERN is appropriate, and also why natural sciences is appropriate Decision-making in managing innovations Cross-disciplinary domains without stated boundaries Open access, double-blind review, on-line only research journal Intellectually challenging providing evidence-based results
Current form and design of CIJ
CIJ publishing practicalities Valeria Brancolini CERN
CIJ practicalities Published online only on CERN Publishing platform Article by article publication (inpress immediately after acceptance) 4 issues/year 4-6 short articles 1000-2000 words (excluding references) per issue Sections: Editorial Original articles Coffee-stained articles (visionary thoughts) The Authors, published under a Creative Commons 4.0 Attribution Licence
Practicalities CERN light-weight account - https://account.cern.ch/account/externals /RegisterAccount.aspx
As an author Guidelines and templates on Journal s homepage Easy 5-steps submission process, with checklist, copyright notice, etc. Possibility to submit supplementary files too and to submit them for reviewing The aim is also to have datasets for replication purposes (if applicable) Authors can keep track of the status of their articles in the system Automatic messages are sent by the system at different stages of the publication process
As a reviewer Double blind peer-review instructions to authors Editor in-chief/assigned associate editor will invite reviewers Reviewers can either accept or refuse the task; automatic reminder if do not reply within 5 days after request 2 weeks to carry out review with specific form Receive reminders 2 days after due date for review
Editorial Board meeting Discussions
Editorial plans and mission Editorial policy and mission of the journal CIJ is targeted at communicating thought-provoking, contemporary, and latest findings in experimental innovation research. CIJ is devoted to publishing the latest research and theory development in in-situ innovation experimentation, strategic innovation management, knowledge exchange and management, and innovation policy issues in cross-sections of science, technology, innovation, and business. The intent of CIJ is to provide evidence-based results that guide decision-making in managing innovations. The unifying theme of all articles published in CIJ is that they examine innovation creation, management, and utilization based on empirical experimentation. Topical areas of CIJ deal with various cross-disciplinary domains ranging from idea creation to innovation development to consumer, end-user participation, business-to-business context, policy decision-making or other topical areas. Demonstration of scientific research methods and rigor is a must for all articles published in CIJ.
Editorial process Accessible to everybody Hence open journal Possibility for authors to widen to full-fledged article (retain copyright) Easy submission with only core results (Abstract, Intro, Theory, Method, Results, Findings/Conclusions) How do we attract submissions (PhD candidates, colleagues, etc?) Short, informative, concise, to-the-point manuscripts? Author awards? Like most downloaded of the month, most viewed abstract etc? Fast and rigorous double blind-review process (what is fast?) Editorial board members in the first phase? Building a database of reviewers on topical areas? Use of pre-defined reviewer form with standard assessment items?
Publishing plans Vol. 1 Iss. 1: In order to establish grounds, guide future contributions, and attract citations from the start 1 st issue Experimental Method, Associate Editors propose topics and deliver manuscripts Also if you know someone who would be good/appropriate How does this sound to you? Vol. 1 Iss. 2-4 (the first year) Special issues+regular papers Editorial Board members as Guest Editors in their own topics? Attracting 4-6 manuscripts on tightly defined topical area Is this a good idea and would you be interested in taking the helm? Vol. 2 onwards Special Topical Sections (if we find this attractive and have interested Associate Editors?) Mostly regular papers though Once/twice a year a PhD colloquium in Experimental Innovation Research Who what when where? Is this a good idea? With general experimental or topical focus? Special Issue once a year?
So where do we aim with this experiment Target: Establish CIJ as THE source in Experiments in Innovation Management Get steady in-flow of manuscripts Get frequent citations in established outlets WoS and Scopus indexing in 3-5 years Getting visibility What and how to aim to monitor
Visibility: example of statistics we will look at Number of Successful Full-Text Article Requests by Month, 2015 Number of Successful Full-Text Article Requests by Month, 2016 (30.05) 25 20 15 10 5 0 90 80 70 60 50 40 30 20 10 0 Inaugural Editorial: Experimentation in Innovation Studies, from December 2015 to date (19.05) 200 180 160 140 120 100 80 60 40 20 0 194 ABSTRACT VIEWS 94 PDF Possibility to map readers interests and to adapt editorial strategy accordingly
Visibility: enhancing the coverage Citation with DOI Table of contents alert for readers Social media sharing (email and social networks) Email signature for editors Editors as ambassadors of the Journal in meetings and conferences Indexing in main bibliographic databases, general and specific for the field, and open access databases
ABI/INFORM Database (ProQuest) Academic ASAP (GALE Cengage) Business Abstracts (EBSCO Publishing) Business ASAP (GALE Cengage) CatchWord (Publishing Technology) EBSCO Online (EBSCO Publishing) Google Scholar InfoTrac (GALE Cengage) OmniFile Full Text Mega Edition (HW Wilson) PAIS: Public Affairs Information Service (ProQuest) ProQuest Central (ProQuest) ProQuest Discovery (ProQuest) ProQuest Research Library (ProQuest) SCImago Scopus
Social media are more and more used in scientific communities Help creating a communication network between people working in the same field Give visibility to research and authors Help creating new relationships useful for research and editorial activities
90 80 70 60 50 40 30 20 10 0 Number of Successful Full-Text Article Requests by Month, 2016 (30.05)
Thomson Reuters Web of Science Impact Factor The Institute for Scientific Information (ISI), founded in 1960, every year publishes the indexed journals calculated impact factors on the Journal Citation Report (JCR) platform 2014 citations to articles published in 2012-2013 IF 2014 = ---------------------------------------------------------------------- number of articles published in 2012-2013 In order to be included in the JCR, a journal s calculated IF needs to reach a specific threshold depending on the category the journal belongs to.
More readers More quality Impact factor More views More citations
How to increase citations Identify hot topics and commission articles: review articles are usually much more cited special issues Editorial board members to submit articles Add citations when you publish in other journals Rigorous peer-review process
Thank you Any questions?