There was an interesting comment on the Code4Lib Journal introduction I wrote for Issue 10. If anyone knows of anything that can respond to Laurie's question, I'd encourage you to comment on the Web site..... Edward
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New comment on your post "Editorial Introduction: The Code4Lib Journal Experiment, Rejection Rates, and Peer Review" Author : Laurie ( Comment: I admit I am one of the tenure-track librarians who just found this page in a search for information for my dossier.
Aware that the journal is not ranked and not peer-reviewed, I'm looking for qualitative information - has the journal, as a whole, received praise from prominent leaders or publications?
My answer is "Yes", but I don't have any examples at hand. Although I seem to recall that some Library Journal thing hilighted Kelley's recent editorial somewhere.
But the best way to find out is probably just to google "Code4Lib Journal" and see for yourself who is saying what about it. We're librarians and information professionals, we know how to find this out for ourselves, right? And probably shoudln't take the word of a self-interested party like the Journal itself on the topic of whether it's well respected in the field!
I wonder if our journal has it's citation's tracked by any of the citation tracking services. We've now been around enough that we've been cited enough times to theoretically start showing up in such things. But I doubt the big commercial services track any web-only open-access publications, do they? Maybe Google Scholar, or CiteSeerX, or something? Would be an interesting thing to look at, and the results could maybe be a Code4Lib Journal article. :)
I checked JCR (because I've made it so easy to do in my library catalog!), and the Code4Lib Journal is not in JCR. Also don't see anything in CiteSeerX. All our articles are in Google Scholar, but G.S. doesn't report any citations for any of them. (I know some of our articles HAVE been cited in scholarly journals, I've seen it).
Edward M. Corrado wrote: > There was an interesting comment on the Code4Lib Journal introduction I wrote for Issue 10. If anyone knows of anything that can respond to Laurie's question, I'd encourage you to comment on the Web site..... Edward
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> New comment on your post "Editorial Introduction: The Code4Lib Journal Experiment, Rejection Rates, and Peer Review" > Author : Laurie ( > Comment: > I admit I am one of the tenure-track librarians who just found this page in a search for information for my dossier.
> Aware that the journal is not ranked and not peer-reviewed, I'm looking for qualitative information - has the journal, as a whole, received praise from prominent leaders or publications?
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PS: I believe, along with Ed, that we ARE peer-reviewed. Every article is accepted (or rejected) and edited by peers in the library technology field. Isn't that peer review? But we aren't "blind refereed".
Edward M. Corrado wrote: > There was an interesting comment on the Code4Lib Journal introduction I wrote for Issue 10. If anyone knows of anything that can respond to Laurie's question, I'd encourage you to comment on the Web site..... Edward
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> New comment on your post "Editorial Introduction: The Code4Lib Journal Experiment, Rejection Rates, and Peer Review" > Author : Laurie ( > Comment: > I admit I am one of the tenure-track librarians who just found this page in a search for information for my dossier.
> Aware that the journal is not ranked and not peer-reviewed, I'm looking for qualitative information - has the journal, as a whole, received praise from prominent leaders or publications?
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On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 12:12 AM, Jonathan Rochkind <rochk...@jhu.edu> wrote: > My answer is "Yes", but I don't have any examples at hand. Although I seem > to recall that some Library Journal thing hilighted Kelley's recent > editorial somewhere.
> But the best way to find out is probably just to google "Code4Lib Journal" > and see for yourself who is saying what about it. We're librarians and > information professionals, we know how to find this out for ourselves, > right? And probably shoudln't take the word of a self-interested party like > the Journal itself on the topic of whether it's well respected in the field!
> I wonder if our journal has it's citation's tracked by any of the citation > tracking services. We've now been around enough that we've been cited enough > times to theoretically start showing up in such things. But I doubt the big > commercial services track any web-only open-access publications, do they? > Maybe Google Scholar, or CiteSeerX, or something? Would be an interesting > thing to look at, and the results could maybe be a Code4Lib Journal article. > :) > I checked JCR (because I've made it so easy to do in my library catalog!), > and the Code4Lib Journal is not in JCR. Also don't see anything in > CiteSeerX. All our articles are in Google Scholar, but G.S. doesn't report > any citations for any of them. (I know some of our articles HAVE been cited > in scholarly journals, I've seen it).
> Edward M. Corrado wrote:
>> There was an interesting comment on the Code4Lib Journal introduction I >> wrote for Issue 10. If anyone knows of anything that can respond to Laurie's >> question, I'd encourage you to comment on the Web site..... Edward
>> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- >> Subject: [The Code4Lib Journal] Comment: "Editorial Introduction: The >> Code4Lib Journal Experiment, Rejection Rates, and Peer Review" >> To: ecorr...@ecorrado.us<mailto:ecorr...@ecorrado.us>
>> New comment on your post "Editorial Introduction: The Code4Lib Journal >> Experiment, Rejection Rates, and Peer Review" >> Author : Laurie ( >> Comment: >> I admit I am one of the tenure-track librarians who just found this page >> in a search for information for my dossier.
>> Aware that the journal is not ranked and not peer-reviewed, I'm looking >> for qualitative information - has the journal, as a whole, received praise >> from prominent leaders or publications?
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I was happy that LC noticed that article, too, and my editorial was mentioned in American Libraries Direct. Not being above the occasional vanity search in Google Scholar, I know that the faceted LCSH article was cited twice (well, GS says 3x, but the last appears to be in error) and the getting moving image FRBR data out of MARC article has been cited once. Scrolling through C4LJ articles in GS, some have been cited and I see that "Using OAI-ORE to Transform Digital Repositories into Interoperable Storage and Services Applications" has been cited six times, as has "The Planets Testbed: Science for Digital Preservation."
More than citations, though, I think the journal has a tremendous practical impact. People actually read it and use the information they get there. If you want to publish to communicate and not just to check off some requirement, C4LJ is a great venue. The large number of submissions we've gotten recently suggests that a lot of people would like to be part of it.
Whether that will impress a tenure committee is another thing, though.
On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 7:16 PM, Jodi Schneider <jschnei...@pobox.com> wrote: > We were very happy when Barbara Tillett promoted Kelley's first > article about LCSH (issue 1?) to LC.
> Some of the commentary on this issue's MARC article was "this should > be taught in library schools".
> The fact that we are indexed in EBSCO (and elsewhere?) may be relevant > to those looking for quality 'metrics'.
> I think a full description of our editorial process should allow > people to decide whether it's peer-reviewed enough for their tastes.
> -Jodi
> On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 12:12 AM, Jonathan Rochkind <rochk...@jhu.edu> wrote: >> My answer is "Yes", but I don't have any examples at hand. Although I seem >> to recall that some Library Journal thing hilighted Kelley's recent >> editorial somewhere.
>> But the best way to find out is probably just to google "Code4Lib Journal" >> and see for yourself who is saying what about it. We're librarians and >> information professionals, we know how to find this out for ourselves, >> right? And probably shoudln't take the word of a self-interested party like >> the Journal itself on the topic of whether it's well respected in the field!
>> I wonder if our journal has it's citation's tracked by any of the citation >> tracking services. We've now been around enough that we've been cited enough >> times to theoretically start showing up in such things. But I doubt the big >> commercial services track any web-only open-access publications, do they? >> Maybe Google Scholar, or CiteSeerX, or something? Would be an interesting >> thing to look at, and the results could maybe be a Code4Lib Journal article. >> :) >> I checked JCR (because I've made it so easy to do in my library catalog!), >> and the Code4Lib Journal is not in JCR. Also don't see anything in >> CiteSeerX. All our articles are in Google Scholar, but G.S. doesn't report >> any citations for any of them. (I know some of our articles HAVE been cited >> in scholarly journals, I've seen it).
>> Edward M. Corrado wrote:
>>> There was an interesting comment on the Code4Lib Journal introduction I >>> wrote for Issue 10. If anyone knows of anything that can respond to Laurie's >>> question, I'd encourage you to comment on the Web site..... Edward
>>> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- >>> Subject: [The Code4Lib Journal] Comment: "Editorial Introduction: The >>> Code4Lib Journal Experiment, Rejection Rates, and Peer Review" >>> To: ecorr...@ecorrado.us<mailto:ecorr...@ecorrado.us>
>>> New comment on your post "Editorial Introduction: The Code4Lib Journal >>> Experiment, Rejection Rates, and Peer Review" >>> Author : Laurie ( >>> Comment: >>> I admit I am one of the tenure-track librarians who just found this page >>> in a search for information for my dossier.
>>> Aware that the journal is not ranked and not peer-reviewed, I'm looking >>> for qualitative information - has the journal, as a whole, received praise >>> from prominent leaders or publications?
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