Selecting papers for publication or How does a journal decide which type of papers to select for their journal? Kristen Sejrsen, sve

Selecting papers for publication or How does a journal decide which type of papers to select for their journal? Kristen Sejrsen, SVE

• Why me?

• Involved in the start of animal

• Senior editor animal

• President of EAAP- one of the 3 partners

• Outline

• Background for start of animal

• Consideration behind the scope

• Outline of the scope of animal

• Comparison with other journals

• Concluding remarks

Background

• Many different small animal science journals

• Many European scientist send their papers to the US

• A wish to create a European journal of the same stature as Journal of Animal Science and Journal of Dairy Science

• Unhappy with the financial agreement with Elsevier

• Loss of funds for the federation

Considerations regrading the scope of the journal

• What is important for authors?

• Which topics?

• Should it be open to other topics that traditional animal science
• Can it be too broad?
• Biomedical, genetic ressources, tropical agriculture, companion animals, aquaculture, human health aspects?
• Too narrow?

• International or European?

• should papers of only local relevance be accepted?

• Emphasis on the impact factor?

• What is a high impact factor for this type of journal?
• JDS - 2.28 in 2006; JAS - 1.98; LPS - 1.13; RND – 1.82; Animal Science – 1.02; Acta Agr. – 0.33
• Maximize impact factor via max. focus on potentially high impact papers?
• New, Exotic, Buzz word topics, high selectivity
• Or focus on papers from the scientist of the “constituency”?

• Rapid handling of papers?

Concluding remarks

• Research from DJF is central to all journals

• All journals try, in different ways, to expand the traditional area

• Biomedical
• Human health aspects
• Tropical
• Genetic ressources
• Companion animals
• Animal models
• Aquaculture
• Ethics

• The hunt for high impact factor is futile for animal scientists

• FOCUS ON REAL IMPACT

• Publish in animal
• or another animal science journal