Re: [LIS-Forum] national or international and peer reviewed journals

Perhaps we are talking in two different layers. While I am referring to definitional aspect of the term called "Peer Review"; you are talking about "Quality Aspect" of Peer Review. For determining the "quality" aspect of the "Peer Review" you are linking "Indexed" status of the journal. While I am simply referring to "What is a Peer Reviewed Journal?" by explaining a pre-publication process, you are advocating quality aspect that process. Indexing agencies see lot of other aspects along with the quality of peer - review. These also include their commercial, political and competing interests. We should not forget the point that Publication is a Business Venture and thus various competing interests come into play leading to creation and propagation of unscientific notions and myths. Any what ultimately matters for journals is - Sound and Validated Reporting of Original Research with high probability of further Research Impact. I am providing links to some material on the subject for the benefit of other participants of the forum: Peer Review http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peer_review Peer Review—The Newcomers' Perspective http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=1201308 --And just a taste of controversies around Peer Review: Rejecting Nobel class papers http://www2.uah.es/jmc/nobel.html (cited in an editorial published in Nature, 16-Oct-2003, Vol 425, Issue 6959, p.645) --Sukhdev Singh, NIC. http://indmed.nic.in On 3/1/07, ppich@vsnl.net wrote:

In general, most of the peer reviewed journals are identified by the databases such as Web of Science and Scopus. However, a few peer reviewed journals are found to be omitted by these databases. The databases look at those journals and consider for indexing if the editors or publishers notify these databases about omission. We can accept the journals indexed by these databases as peer reviewed. I also accept that a (very?) few peer reviewed journals are not covered by these databases.

Identying the peer reviewed journals is a complex process,as many journals claim themselves as peer reviewed. There is a paper by me about Peer reviewing in Indian S&T journals in CURRENT SCIENCE, VOL. 90, NO. 5, 10 MARCH 2006.

P.Pichappan Editor Journal of Digital Information Management www.dirf.org/jdim

----- Original Message ----- From: Sukhdev Singh Date: Monday, February 26, 2007 3:58 pm Subject: Re: [LIS-Forum] national or international To: "ppich@vsnl.net" , lis-forum@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in

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Would like to correct meaning of "Peer - Reviewed Journal" .

Peer - Reviewed Journal means that the articles in the journal are published only after they have been referred to some other experts from the domain / research area of the article.

The confusion of linking Indexing to Peer-Review is due to the fact that all Indexing Services only include "Peer - Reviewed" journals in their services.

So we can say that all Indexed Journals are Peer-Reviewed. However, not all Peer-Reviewed Journals are indexed. As there are many Peer-Reviewed journals which are yet to be selected by some indexing agency.

--Sukhdev Singh, NIC. http://indmed.nic.in

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A journal is international if it is edited by the editorial board drawn from many countries; if the papers come from many countries; and has wider circulation in many countries. A journal

On 2/25/07, ppich@vsnl.net wrote: published from India if has the above features, it is an international journal. A journal is peer reviewed if it is indexed by databases such as Web of Science, SCOPUS, COMPENDEX and similar one.

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P.Pichappan Editor Journal of Digital Information Management http://www.dirf.org/jdim

----- Original Message ----- From: intekhab alam Date: Wednesday, February 21, 2007 12:34 pm Subject: [LIS-Forum] national or international To: lis-forum@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in

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dear all

how can we decide whether a journal is national or international? whether a journal published in India can't be international?

please reply

intekhab alam

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