Where to publish?

[rougier]

(From ReScience/ReScience-article#3)

Wish list:

1. Open access
2. Open reviewing
3. Low cost
4. Read by computational scientists from all fields
5. Other criterion?

Is there any journal that satisfies all criteria?

[rougier]

• F1000Research

  Open access, open review, and a good topic section (publishing, education, communication), but also a serious price tag (500 or 1000 US$ depending on length)

  • Open access
  • Open reviewing
  • Low cost?
  • Read by all?

[rougier]

• PeerJ Computer Science

  In spite of the name there are many articles on computational science as well. Open access
  but not open reviewing. High page charges (695 US$).

  • Open access
  • Open reviewing
  • Low cost?
  • Read by all?

[rougier]

• Computing in Science & Engineering

  Focused on computational science, no page charges, but no open access either
  (not even for money), nor open reviewing. There are two channels: peer-reviewed articles, and department contributions that are evaluated by the department editors.

  Disclaimer: @khinsen is department editor for "Scientific Programming". @labarba is department editor for "Reproducible Research".

  • Open access
  • Open reviewing
  • Low cost?
  • Read by all?

[rougier]

• PLoS ONE

  They advertise to publish reports of original research from all disciplines within science and medicine.

  • Open access
  • Open reviewing
  • Low cost?
  • Read by all?

[rougier]

• Royal Society Open Science

  From the website: A fast, open journal publishing high quality research across all of science, engineering and mathematics.

  • Open access
  • Open reviewing
  • Low cost?
  • Read by all?

[pdebuyl]

@eroesch suggests

• Science
  From the website: Science is a weekly, peer-reviewed journal that publishes significant original scientific research, plus reviews and analyses of current research and science policy.
  • Open access
  • Open reviewing
  • Low cost
  • Read by all

[pdebuyl]

Do journal allow pooling of publication fees by sending several partial invoices?

[ThomasA]

• Journal of Open Research Software
  The Journal of Open Research Software (JORS) features peer reviewed Software Metapapers describing research software with high reuse potential. We are working with a number of specialist and institutional repositories to ensure that the associated software is professionally archived, preserved, and is openly available. Equally importantly, the software and the papers will be citable, and reuse will be tracked.

  JORS also publishes full-length research papers that cover different aspects of creating, maintaining and evaluating open source research software. The aim of the section is to promote the dissemination of best practice and experience related to the development and maintenance of reusable, sustainable research software.

  • Open access
  • Open reviewing
  • Low cost
  • Read by computational scientists from all fields

[labarba]

Regarding Computing in Science and Engineering,
our plan with @gkthiruvathukal is for the RR track to be open access. We also had animated discussions at the last in-person meeting of the Editorial Board (in April) about double-open reviews. The consensus is that we want to implement it, at least in an opt-in fashion, and the next step is to figure out the technical hurdles in the manuscript submission system.

[pdebuyl]

texcount gives close to 5000 words in the current version. Not all journals will accept this.

Also, some journals have rather strong statements on the type of articles. Royal Society Open Science, for instance, has as first criterion

Original research in science, engineering or mathematics.

that diminishes my motivation to submit there with the type of paper we have.

Finally, what audience do we want? Optimistically, I'd like the broadest audience as I believe that our experience is of interest for most scientific fields!

[pdebuyl]

Some consider F1000 to publish peer-review related articles: http://fossilsandshit.com/research/publications/submitted-ver-1/ @khinsen what does your experience say about this?

[khinsen]

@pdebuyl I think F1000 is an excellent fit for our topic. Potential problems:

• High page charges
• The authors must propose referees, which F1000 accepts or refuses according to unclear rules. Then the referees can of course accept of refuse individually. This could be an issue for us because most potential referees are already authors.

Having recently reviewed an article, I have "earned" a 50% discount on page charges which we could probably use, but even 50% is a lot, given their biology-oriented pricing.

[pdebuyl]

@ctb @karthik I see that you published "Issues in Research Software" papers in JORS. Any feedback for the paper here?

[pdebuyl]

Oops, for JORS issues in research software papers: "Articles should not exceed 3-4000 words"