[CoDeP] the Betham case

[Richard Tol]

I note that:

I volunteered to join a committee on the measurement of journal quality, but appear to have been put on a committee on deceptive publishing.

The committee targeted a journal and publisher without due consideration or process, and approached its editorial board with a mildly menacing email only to discover we misfired and seem to have confused two publishers with similar names.

There is now a proposal to change the scope of the committee to determine what is and is not an economics journal.


I suggest that (in chronological order):
We develop terms of reference for this committee.

Reconsider the membership in the light of those terms of reference.

Develop criteria for journals and publishers.

Develop a method for testing journals and publishers against said criteria.

Apply said method to all journals and publishers at RePEc.


I also suggest that we move this discussion away from email and onto a discussion forum where all have access to all members, documents, and discussions.


Hope this helps.


Richard





-----Original Message-----
From: CoDeP-run [mailto:codep-run-bounces at lists.openlib.org] On Behalf Of Dr. Olowa Olatomide
Sent: 20 December 2016 09:56
To: Thomas <krichel at openlib.org>; Christopher <kitbaum at icloud.com>
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Subject: Re: [CoDeP] the Betham case

I object acceptance of Bentham journals, as it doesn't have the clear economic contents required to be enlisted on repec at all.  Even the tech transfer edition is about 99% tilted to tech/Science. How then would repec platform cast on it archival statuses it seeks without being trivialised. On Dec 19, 2016 21:29, Thomas Krichel <krichel at openlib.org> wrote:
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>   Christopher Baum writes 
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> > OK, the same person requested archives on 9 Dec for Bentham Science Publishers ( http://benthamscience.com/journals-by-title/A/1/)  and Bentham Open ( https://benthamopen.com/browse-by-title/A/1/). Do you advise that we should accept Bentham as a publisher? 
> > 
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>   Yes, and tell them we only want that tech tranfer journal. We saw 
>   nothing interesting for us in Bentham Open. 
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