LONDON, May 24, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- A few months ago,
Editage—a leading global scholarly communications company—released
a comprehensive report based on a global author survey capturing
the views of almost 7000 researchers on different aspects of
scholarly publishing. In the last question of the survey,
researchers were asked to provide comments on what they would like
to change about the academic publishing system. As a qualitative
follow up to the survey report, Editage has now released a report
that analyzes all comments received in response to this
question.
The main themes that emerged as problems that researchers want
addressed were delays in publication, peer review quality and
processes, high publishing-related costs, complexity of journal
guidelines and systems, and inadequate adoption of open access.
Other notable themes included different types of biases in
publishing, problems specifically faced by early career
researchers, and lack of transparency in the system.
Capturing the comments of over 2,500 researchers around the
world, this Editage report represents one of the largest
populations of researchers whose open-ended responses have been
studied in relation to academic publishing. Furthermore, over 90%
of respondents who said changes are needed in the system provided
supporting comments, which is a staggering volume of responses for
the last question of an exhaustive survey.
"Given the high author participation we saw for the entire
survey, we knew that we would obtain significant insights once we
delved into the open-ended comments the respondents had
provided," says Clarinda Cerejo,
Associate Vice President, Scholarly Communications, at Editage.
"What we had not expected was the sheer number of supporting
comments we would receive for this particular question, despite it
being the last question. Many of the comments were elaborate,
incisive, practical, and heartfelt. It was always our intention,
through the survey, to make the voices of global researchers heard
loud and clear within the scholarly publishing community, and what
better way than by analyzing and presenting the actual comments of
our survey respondents! We believe that this report will directly
speak to journals, publishers, and academic societies who serve
researchers and want direct access to their opinions."
This new report, released just ahead of the Society for
Scholarly Publishing (SSP) annual conference 2019, one of the
largest global conferences in the scholarly communications
industry, is likely to trigger a lot of interesting conversations.
Editage also intends to make public the most meaningful comments
received through the survey, so that they can serve as a guiding
light for bringing about meaningful changes in scholarly
publishing.
The report can be downloaded here.
About Editage:
Founded in 2002, Cactus Communications is a global scholarly and
medical communications company with offices in Tokyo, Seoul,
Shanghai, Beijing, London, New
Jersey, Mumbai, and
Singapore. CACTUS operates through
two main verticals: Editage, a leading consumer technology business
that provides editorial, translation, and digital solutions, and
Cactus Life Sciences, which provides rich strategic and tactical
content solutions to stakeholders associated with global pharma and
device-making. The team, comprising over 750 full-time employees
and 2,500 freelancers, has served close to 200,000 researchers,
doctors, and scientists across 173 countries and has transformed
over 900,000 papers across 1,200 disciplines.
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