4. Happy authors
• What Authors Want: The ALPSP research
study on the motivations and concerns of
contributors to learned journals
– 10,970 authors contacted
– 3218 responses (12.4% medical sciences)
– 38 publishers contributed author contacts
• Swan A, Brown S, ALPSP, London
5.
6.
7. You want an audience
• Print and online
– Print circulation = Good old readers
– Society journals = Traditional route for authors
to reach discrete audience
– Online @ Wiley = ~25 million registered
– Google, PubMed = plenty more readers
• Online is now!
8. You want ‘open access’?
• No barrier between readers and content
• e.g. top 20 downloads papers at IJCP are
„open‟
• Only „open‟ = PLoS, BioMedCentral ,
www.Archives of Drug Information.org
• Or partly „open‟ by hybrid scheme at
Wiley or any major publisher
9. You want prestige?
• Prestige = Impact Factor?
• Is the paper really NEJM material?
– NEJM: ~3% of papers submitted (IF 52)
– BMJ: 6% of research papers submitted (IF 9.7)
– BJU Int: ~14% of papers submitted (IF 2.8)
– Arthritis & Rheumatism: ~25% of papers submitted
(IF 7.7)
– IJCP: ~33% of papers submitted (IF 1.6)
10. Psychiatry 2007, May http://www.psychiatrymmc.com
• [impact factor] no longer dominates choices
• Editors … need to focus on a fast and friendly
submission and review … early online and speedy
print publication
• internet permits anyone to find the author‟s work
11. You just need a citation?
• Alternative peer-reviewed journal models
• Rejection rates low … more a question of
„sufficient quality‟ than „priority‟
• Routine, confirmatory, negative, null
• PLoS ONE
• www.Archives of Drug Information.org
13. IJCP is different www.IJCP.org
• Fit with aims and scope
– General medical
– Specialist/secondary care and primary care
– Clinical research, clinical reviews, clinical
insight
• Happy authors
– “Always a pleasant experience working with
the IJCP team. They are efficient,
professional and nice to deal with.”
14. IJCP is different www.IJCP.org
• Predictable, Able to plan
– Accurate timelines and information, helpful
communication, coordinated publication
(congresses, events, PR)
• Speed
– Rapid, robust peer review and publication
– 2008 review times: mean 18 days
– NEW EXPEDITED = 777
7 days peer review, 7 days proof,
7 days online
– Reasonable (not terrifying) rejection rate: IJCP
publishes around 33% of papers submitted
15. IJCP is different www.IJCP.org
• Indexing, Impact
– PubMed and everywhere you‟d expect
– Google „optimized‟ (like all @ Wiley)
– Impact Factor = 1.6
– 2008 press coverage like Daily Mail and
New York Times and BBC and Fox News
16. IJCP is different www.IJCP.org
• Readers
– @ Wiley ~25,000 per month
– @ Medscape ~25,000 per month
– 10%UK, 30% USA, 30%EU, 30%ROW
Print readers = <1000
• Extras
– Open access, via hybrid
– Article metrics? Special service!
– Additional material online? PPT, data/methods
– Enhancements? Video/audio author interviews
18. How you can choose
• Publication planning database
(PeerView, Pubs Hub, Datavision)
• PubMed
• Read!
• Call the publisher (or the editor)
19. Top tips
• Ask before you submit
• Go fast, faster, fastest…
• Get more for your authors
20. Ask before you submit
• Ups: Enables planning and
efficiency, illuminates authorship,
delivers early „no‟
• Downs: Need concrete information
• Key: Let‟s talk
21. Going faster
• Ups: Great papers warrant fast
publication (exciting)
• Downs: Sometimes speed causes
trouble, can‟t achieve
the impossible
• Key: Be realistic
22. More for authors, readers
• Ups: Enhanced article features, like
interviews, slide sets
http://www.bjui.org/fa_sunrise/default.asp?j=1
• Downs: Takes a little coordination
• Key: Explore early
23. So…
• Let‟s talk
• Be realistic
• Explore early
• chris.graf@wiley.com
+44 1865 476 393
