Research on the editorial boards of scholarly journals has predominantly relied on static, cross-sectional data, focusing on their composition or interlocking editorships at single points in time. To address this gap, a formal stock-flow framework is developed for analyzing the longitudinal dynamics of editorial boards. The model integrates three interconnected layers: journal demographics, the dynamics of editorial positions, and the dynamics of board members. This framework is applied to the Gatekeepers of Economics Longitudinal Database (GOELD), which contains annual snapshots of editorial boards for approximately 1,700 economics journals from 1866 to 2006 (by decade), plus the years 2012 and 2019. The period until 1946 was characterized by small-scale: few journals and compact editorial communities. The decade from 1946 to 1956 marked the shift toward a ''big science'' model, initiating an era of expansionary growth fueled primarily by the founding of new journals. The contemporary period (2006-2019) appears to represent a structural break, characterized by low flux and more stable and more closed editorial communities. The results shows that the proposed framework enables a dynamic, long-term analysis of how journals and their gatekeeping systems evolve, grow, and structure themselves.
Learning contact-rich manipulation is difficult from cameras and proprioception alone because contact events are only partially observed. We test whether training-time instrumentation, i.e., object sensorisation, can improve policy performance without creating deployment-time dependencies. Specifically, we study button pressing as a testbed and use a microphone fingertip to capture contact-relevant audio. We use an instrumented button-state signal as privileged supervision to fine-tune an audio encoder into a contact event detector. We combine the resulting representation with imitation learning using three strategies, such that the policy only uses vision and audio during inference. Button press success rates are similar across methods, but instrumentation-guided audio representations consistently reduce contact force. These results support instrumentation as a practical training-time auxiliary objective for learning contact-rich manipulation policies.
DESIDOC Journal of Library & Information Technology (DJLIT) formerly known as DESIDOC Bulletin of Information Technology is a peer-reviewed, open access, bimonthly journal. This paper presents a Scientometric analysis of the DESIDOC Journal. The paper analyses the pattern of growth of the research output published in the journal, pattern of authorship, author productivity, and, subjects covered to the papers over the period (2013-2017). It is found that 227 papers were published during the period of study (2001-2012). The maximum numbers of articles were collaborative in nature. The subject concentration of the journal noted is Scientometrics. The maximum numbers of articles (65%) have ranged their thought contents between 6 and 10 pages. The study applied standard formula and statistical tools to bring out the factual result.
The work involved in gathering, wrangling, cleaning, and otherwise preparing data for analysis is often the most time consuming and tedious aspect of data work. Although many studies describe data preparation within the context of data science workflows, there has been little research on data preparation in data journalism. We address this gap with a hybrid form of thematic analysis that combines deductive codes derived from existing accounts of data science workflows and inductive codes arising from an interview study with 36 professional data journalists. We extend a previous model of data science work to incorporate detailed activities of data preparation. We synthesize 60 dirty data issues from 16 taxonomies on dirty data and our interview data, and we provide a novel taxonomy to characterize these dirty data issues as discrepancies between mental models. We also identify four challenges faced by journalists: diachronic, regional, fragmented, and disparate data sources.
Scientific publishing is facing an alarming proliferation of fraudulent practices that threaten the integrity of research communication. The production and dissemination of fake research have become a profitable business, undermining trust in scientific journals and distorting the evaluation processes that depend on them. This brief piece examines the problem of fake journals through a three-level typology. The first level concerns predatory journals, which prioritise financial gain over scholarly quality by charging authors publication fees while providing superficial or fabricated peer review. The second level analyses hijacked journals, in which counterfeit websites impersonate legitimate titles to deceive authors into submitting and paying for publication. The third level addresses hacked journals, where legitimate platforms are compromised through cyberattacks or internal manipulation, enabling the distortion of review and publication processes. Together, these forms of misconduct expose deep vulnerabilities in the scientific communication ecosystem, exacerbated by the pressure to publish and the marketisation of research outputs. The manuscript concludes that combating these practices requires structural reforms in scientific evaluation and governance. Only by reducing the incentives that sustain the business of fraudulent publishing can the scholarly community restore credibility and ensure that scientific communication fulfils the essential purpose of reliable advancement of knowledge.
Interdisciplinary research is critical for innovation and addressing complex societal issues. We characterise the interdisciplinary knowledge structure of PubMed research articles in medicine as correlation networks of medical concepts and compare the interdisciplinarity of articles between high-ranking (impactful) and less high-ranking (less impactful) medical journals. We found that impactful medical journals tend to publish research that are less interdisciplinary than less impactful journals. Observing that they bridge distant knowledge clusters in the networks, we find that cancer-related research can be seen as one of the main drivers of interdisciplinarity in medical science. Using signed difference networks, we also investigate the clustering of deviations between high and low impact journal correlation networks. We generally find a mild tendency for strong link differences to be adjacent. Furthermore, we find topic clusters of deviations that shift over time. In contrast, topic clusters in the original networks are static over time and can be seen as the core knowledge structure in medicine. Overall, journals and policymakers should encourage initiatives to accommodate interdisciplinarity within the existing infrastructures to maximise the potential patient benefits from IDR.
Users in the data age have access to more data than ever before, but little is known how they interact with it. Using transparency and multimedia, data journalism (DJ) lets users explore and interpret data on their own. This study examines how DJ affects online comments as a case study of user interactions with data. The corpus comprises 6,400 stories and their comment sections from the DJ and other sections of the New York Times, from 2014-2022. Results indicate that DJ is positively associated with higher level of interactivity between the users. This relationship is mediated by statistical information, information sources, and static visualizations. However, there is a low level of interactivity with the content; consequently, only part of the users use it. The results demonstrate how data accessibility through DJ engages the users in conversation. According to deliberation theory, this creates a conducive environment for democratic processes.
Purpose: Journal Impact Factors and other citation-based indicators are widely used and abused to help select journals to publish in or to estimate the value of a published article. Nevertheless, citation rates primarily reflect scholarly impact rather than other quality dimensions, including societal impact, originality, and rigour. In contrast, Journal Quality Factors (JQFs) are average quality score estimates given to a journal's articles by ChatGPT. Design: JQFs were compared with Polish, Norwegian and Finnish journal ranks and with journal citation rates for 1,300 journals with 130,000 articles from 2021 in large monodisciplinary journals in the 25 out of 27 Scopus broad fields of research for which it was possible. Outliers were also examined. Findings: JQFs correlated positively and mostly strongly (median correlation: 0.641) with journal ranks in 24 out of the 25 broad fields examined, indicating a nearly science-wide ability for ChatGPT to estimate journal quality. Journal citation rates had similarly high correlations with national journal ranks, however, so JQFs are not a universally better indicator. An examination of journals with JQFs not matching their journal ranks suggested that abstract styles may affect the result, such as whether the societal contexts of research are mentioned. Limitations: Different journal rankings may have given different findings because there is no agreed meaning for journal quality. Implications: The results suggest that JQFs are plausible as journal quality indicators in all fields and may be useful for the (few) research and evaluation contexts where journal quality is an acceptable proxy for article quality, and especially for fields like mathematics for which citations are not strong indicators of quality. Originality: This is the first attempt to estimate academic journal value with a Large Language Model.
El ejercicio del periodismo en los países de Centroamérica enfrenta grandes retos. La reconversión digital de las redacciones ha marcado una impronta en los medios de comunicación en un contexto económico y político inestable y un mercado laboral cada vez más competitivo para dirigirse a un público que revela importantes carencias. Nuestro objetivo es describir el impacto de la digitalización en la producción periodística de los medios de comunicación de Centroamérica a través del estudio de cuatro países (Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala y Honduras) a lo largo de diez años (2012-2021). Nos servimos de la triangulación metodológica mediante el empleo de técnicas mixtas cualitativas y cuantitativas (estudios previos sobre digitalización periodística, 102 encuestas a periodistas en activo y 14 entrevistas semiestructuradas a expertos) sobre tres ejes temáticos: el impacto de la digitalización en la producción noticiosa, la situación laboral del periodista durante el proceso de reconversión digital y los efectos de ésta en la empresa periodística. Las principales conclusiones apuntan a que el periodista ha tenido que desarrollar competencias digitales en un proceso de transformación acelerada que ha afectado a los contenidos, rutinas, fuentes y agenda temática; el periodista ha acumulado tareas, al tiempo que ha aumentado la precariedad laboral, si bien la reconfiguración digital ha permitido trabajar con mayor comodidad y se apuesta por la formación tecnológica continua del periodista.
Communication. Mass media, Journalism. The periodical press, etc.
The purpose of this study is to analyze the research article publishing with special reference to preparing to publish and peer reviewing. Peer reviewing is the process required for standardizing any publications. Manuscript writing is an art. Though it appears to be simple there is a lot of effort required. Peer reviewing is the process that eliminates articles that do not meet the standard of the journals and the scope of the journals. The study investigated authors views on manuscript submissions to the publishing process. There are 375 samples selected for this study who have experienced publishing journals listed in refereed journals. For the selection of the sample 50 ScimagoJR Library and Information Science open access journals between 2019 to 2021 are verified by the authors.
Predatory journals that pretended to resemble refereed journals but are used for money-making purposes. Predatory publishers produce less quality scientific and research papers; it is a severe academic threat in scientific publications. Researchers are ensuring the quality of the journal and peer-reviewing process before submitting the manuscript. This paper aims to know the Indian Library and Information Science faculties awareness and knowledge about Predatory journals.
In South Korea since the mid-2010s, the discourse on giraegi has prevailed. The word giraegi is a combination of gija , the Korean word for journalist, and tsuraegi , the Korean word for trash. By considering this distinctive discourse on giraegi as a negative emotional form of anti-press discourse, this paper explores the background logics and rationales behind the giraegi discourse that classifies journalists as trash, by focusing on the case of the networked public of # giraegi . Its analysis reveals that certain negative emotions toward the press – disgust, hate, and shame – are the sources of the formation and maintenance of the networked public of # giraegi and also the energy that directs the flow of their hostile messages about journalists and journalism. Moreover, journalists are considered ‘pollutants’ that tarnish Korean society and thereby something that needs to be eliminated. In connection with the growing research on hate speech against journalists on digital media, this research ultimately argues that this affective form of anti-journalistic discourse – mainly focusing on hate, disgust, and shame – can hardly bring about normative and constructive effects; its probable impact will be to exacerbate distrust and skepticism toward journalists and journalism itself.
This article examines the reporting strategy and gender perspective in Chinese media coverage of COVID-19 news. The article employs a mixed-method approach to analyze news reports, using quantitative statistics and qualitative semantic materials that complement each other. The study found that the media construct a stereotypical image of female healthcare workers absent from public participation. Media reports on the actual number of female healthcare workers involved in treating COVID-19 patients are lower than those about men. Reports focusing exclusively on female staff tend to focus on their private affairs, that is, on their non-professional identities and characteristics, and show an excessive gaze on the female body. To understand this phenomenon prevailing in Chinese media, it is necessary to highlight the predicament of Chinese women in society as well as acknowledge the work of contemporary Chinese feminism in raising awareness on Chinese women’s experiences.
Journalism. The periodical press, etc., Communication. Mass media
Enformasyon dengesizliğini, uluslararası girişimler çerçevesinde incelemeyi amaçlayan bu çalışma hem sorunun çözümü için gerçekleştirilen uluslararası girişimleri bütüncül bir yapıda değerlendirmeyi hem de son girişimden bu yana geçen 16 yıllık süre zarfında sorunun çözümü noktasındaki gelişmeleri ele alarak bazı çözüm önerilerinde bulunmayı hedeflemektedir.
Çalışma, enformasyon akışındaki dengesizliği çözme amacıyla başlatılan uluslararası girişimler başarılı mıdır? Ve sorun neden kapitalist bir bakış açısıyla, ülkeler/uluslar düzeyinden, çok uluslu şirketler düzeyine taşınmıştır soruları üzerine inşa edilmiştir. Enformasyonun dengesiz akışı bağlamında Birleşmiş Milletler’in (BM) söz konusu probleme yaklaşımını ve sorunun çözümü çerçevesinde oluşturulan mekanizmaları anlamak ve açıklamak üzere hazırlanan bu çalışmanın kapsamını, enformasyon dengesizliğinden ziyade, bu dengesizliği ortadan kaldırmak için gerçekleştirilen uluslararası girişimler oluşturmaktadır. Bu bağlamda gerçekleştirilen uluslararası girişimler çalışmanın sınırlılığı olarak belirlenmiştir. Yukarıda belirtilen girişimlerin daha iyi anlaşılması ve süreçlerin daha net bir şekilde ortaya konulabilmesi için nitel betimsel analiz, çalışmanın yöntemi olarak benimsenmiştir.
Çalışmanın sonucunda, dengesizliğin ülkeler/uluslar düzeyinden, çok uluslu şirketler düzeyine taşındığı tespit edilmiş ve dengesiz akışın halen devam ettiği yönündeki bulgulara ulaşılmıştır. Söz konusu bulgular ışığında sorunun çözümü için somut bazı çözüm önerilerine yer verilmiştir.
İnsan sonrası düşünce, içerisinde yaşadığımız dünyayı insan ve insan dışı tüm canlılar ile birlikte bir bütün olarak gören ve etik açıdan tüm türleri kapsayan yeni bir yaklaşım ortaya koymaktadır. Günümüz dünyasına hâkim olan teknolojik ilerlemeler, insan ve inşa dışı varlıklar için tehditler veya imkânlar oluştururken bir yandan da bizi yaşamsal etik üzerine yeniden düşünmeye davet etmektedir. İnsan sonrası düşüncenin kapsadığı alanlardan birisi de bu nedenle, dijital teknolojilerdir. Dijital teknoloji denilince akla gelen bir diğer kavram olan sanal gerçeklik de böylesi bir düşünce akımı içerisinde kendisine yer bulmaktadır. Dijital teknolojilerin otonom halde olduğu kanaatinde olan insan sonrası felsefe ile sanal gerçekliğin pratik uygulamaları arasındaki ilişki bu anlamda dikkat çekicidir. Bu çalışmada sanal gerçeklik pratiklerinden birisi olan ve yakın zamanda piyasaya sürülmesi beklenen Facebook Horizon uygulaması araştırılmaktadır. Uygulamanın web sayfasında sunulan içerikler, betimsel olarak analiz edilmekte ve insan sonrası felsefe ile dijital teknolojilerin içerdiği gerçeklik olgusu üzerinden çözümlenmektedir. İnsan sonrası etik ve sanal gerçekliğin kesiştiği bir mecra olan Facebook Horizon’un bu etiğin içerdiği söylemlerden uzak olduğu ancak gerek kullanıcının gerekse üreticinin idealindeki sanal gerçeklik deneyimini sunabildiği gözlenmiştir.
Cinema has become one of the most influential elements in the society since its origins in the 19th century, for various reasons: its artistic-aesthetic, narrative-communicative, technical, etc. In this sense, the Seventh Art has become a fundamental creative and industrial product of the culture that has evolved over the years. Taking into account the development and value of cinematography, this study attempts to address the way in which the frames, light and color of the images that make up a film serve as expressive elements. To do this, this research analyzes the film composition work of Roger Deakins in four of his works: Fargo, The Man Who
Wasn´t There, Sicario and Blade Runner 2049. Likewise, we also ask whether the cameraman has a defined style. At the same time, we intend to highlight the profession of the cinematographer, as the figure in charge of constructing the frame of the film narrative.
Communication. Mass media, Journalism. The periodical press, etc.
Esta investigación analiza uno de los programas televisivos que inició el llamado periodismo de misterio en España: Más Allá. Fue presentado y dirigido por el periodista y psiquiatra Fernando Jiménez del Oso y se emitió en la segunda cadena de la televisión pública española desde 1976 hasta 1981. El programa exponía numerosos debates y entrevistas centrados, en esencia, en el campo de las ciencias ocultas (más concretamente englobaba cualquier tema relacionado con el misterio y lo desconocido). Se analiza su presencia en la programación (cadena, día y hora de emisión), los temas abordados en las diferentes ediciones del programa a lo largo de su emisión, así como la estética y los recursos audiovisuales y técnicos utilizados para crear un ambiente característico. Se mostrará que Más Allá supuso una ruptura respecto a la cultura oficial franquista, abordando, con cierta libertad, cuestiones que hasta entonces se habían considerado tabú.
Communication. Mass media, Journalism. The periodical press, etc.
We comment on a recent article by Laakso et al. (arXiv:2008.11933 [cs.DL]), in which the disappearance of 176 open access journals from the Internet is noted. We argue that one reason these journals may have vanished is that they were predatory journals. The de-listing of predators from the Directory of Open Access Journals in 2014 and the abundance of predatory journals and awareness thereof in North America parsimoniously explain the temporal and geographic patterns Laakso et al. observed.
Oana Balalau, Catarina Conceiç{ã}o, Helena Galhardas
et al.
Nowadays, journalism is facilitated by the existence of large amounts of digital data sources, including many Open Data ones. Such data sources are extremely heterogeneous, ranging from highly struc-tured (relational databases), semi-structured (JSON, XML, HTML), graphs (e.g., RDF), and text. Journalists (and other classes of users lacking advanced IT expertise, such as most non-governmental-organizations, or small public administrations) need to be able to make sense of such heterogeneous corpora, even if they lack the ability to de ne and deploy custom extract-transform-load work ows. These are di cult to set up not only for arbitrary heterogeneous inputs , but also given that users may want to add (or remove) datasets to (from) the corpus. We describe a complete approach for integrating dynamic sets of heterogeneous data sources along the lines described above: the challenges we faced to make such graphs useful, allow their integration to scale, and the solutions we proposed for these problems. Our approach is implemented within the ConnectionLens system; we validate it through a set of experiments.