Re: predatory journals and conferences article in NY Times

It's high time universities stopped judging academics by *where* they
have published rather than *what*. 

We already have a form of rating for journals. It's called impact
factor. It doesn't work, because judging papers by their place of
publication is nonsensical.

Linked data and semantic web technologies provide opportunities, I
think, to handle the metadata associated with scientific publication, to
represent the knowledge in academic publications, and to do so without
the necessity for a centralised authority.

But, then I am a researcher with a metanl narrow focus, so what do I
know?

Phil

ProjectParadigm-ICT-Program <metadataportals@yahoo.com> writes:
> This is a problem which manifests itself in every discipline and it preys on
> basic human needs for recognition. The current publishing world of academia
> itself is to blame partially.
>
> Because in each field of science scientists and researchers usually have a
> short list of peer-reviewed journals and conferences in their mental narrow
> focus, only librarians typically have a (often not much) better overview of
> available reputable journals and conferences in respective fields.
>
> It is high time for a global registry of scientific publishers and their
> respective journals and a form of rating and grading them.
>
> Linked data and semantic web technologies provide opportunities to create such
> rating and grading systems, and maybe an item for a separate W3C Community
> Group?
>
>  
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Received on Tuesday, 23 April 2013 10:39:13 UTC