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Thanks David and Kris. I actually forgot that we had changed servers for ACME in June 2006, so those top-ten download data were for the period 1 July 2006 to 8 April 2009 and not from 2002 as I'd stated. There are some other interesting issues, in that both Google Scholar and Elsevier's SCOPUS database both provide much better coverage of citations than does Thomson ISI's Web of Science. This is because Web of Science indexes more than three times the number of Science journals as it does Social Science journals, and thus does a very poor job of harvesting citation data for the Social Sciences. Nevertheless, as part of our application for funding with the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, we also had to calculate 'impact factors'. Using the same methodology as that of Web of Science, ACME ranked a respectable 21 out of 45 Geography journals. More importantly, however, and this seems to fit with your experiences with Surveillance and Society and Kris's experience with the GlobalHigherEd weblog, is the response we get to ACME from colleagues outside the UK and USA. Some of our most downloaded articles (although not in the top ten) are published in Spanish, Italian or German, which speaks to the need for more 'internationalness' in international publishing. On 08/04/09 5:15 PM, "D F J Wood" <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Lawrence, and all - thanks for this. > > We have a similar experience with our journal, Surveillance & Society, has > some astounding download figures for articles - and I am meeting people all > around the world who know and read the journal, and it makes me think we are > making perhaps much more of a difference to thinking and the intellectual (and > indeed, policy) climate than many more 'prestigious' publications, especially > in non-global north countries. > > This does call into question the way in which we assess the impact of journals > and articles. There is a possibility that traditional journals could retreat > into a self-referencing clique of publications whilst open access journals > make more impact in the wider world. What then does it mean to be highly rated > by Thomson ISI (for example)? We did our own calculation with the same methods > use by them, and if we were rated by them (which we are not, because they > can't seem to manage to assess us), we would be a very highly rated social > science journal - I wonder how many other open access journals experience much > the same... > > And whilst we have had some minor annoyance from (particularly US) scholars > who 'demand' that we have published 'ratings' as the requirements of research > assessments have an impact, we are not finding any lessening in submissions; > on the contrary we are finding the submissions increasing from new people and > new places... we will have our first Latin America special next year, and > ACME's new multi-language format is a fabulous initiative in this regard too. > > Somehow, those who engage in assessment of publication are going to work out > what to do about this. We tried very hard on the Canadian research councils > scholarly assessment committee on which I sat, but I don't know of any > equivalent committee elsewhere... perhaps others can enlighten us... > > David. > > Dr David Murakami Wood > ESRC Research Fellow, Global Urban Research Unit | Visiting Scholar, > Postgraduate Program in Urban Management > Newcastle University, UK | > Pontifical Catholic University of Paraná, Curitiba, Brazil > e-mail: [log in to unmask] | website: > http://www.ncl.ac.uk/guru/staff/profile/d.f.j.wood | blog: > http://ubisurv.wordpress.com > ________________________________________ > From: A forum for critical and radical geographers > [[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Lawrence Berg > [[log in to unmask]] > Sent: 08 April 2009 23:44 > To: [log in to unmask] > Subject: Open versus closed access journals > > Issue 24 (April 7, 2009) of the CAG GeogNews published a list of the top ten > downloaded papers in The Canadian Geographer/Le Géographe canadien in 2008 > (reproduced below). This spurred me to send this note out with a list of the > top ten downloaded ACME articles over the life of the journal as well as the > top five recent (last 25 days) downloaded articles. > > Top Ten ACME Downloads, 2002-2009: > > Robyn Longhurst, 2006, A Pornography of Birth: Crossing Moral Boundaries. > Downloaded 17,485 times > http://www.acme-journal.org/vol5/RLo.pdf > > Amy Siciliano, 2007, La Haine: Framing the ŒUrban Outcasts¹, Downloaded 13,518 > times > http://www.acme-journal.org/vol6/ASi.pdf > > Stuart C. Aitken and James Craine, 2002, Lust, Desire and the Music of Matt > Johnson, Downloaded 13,243 times > http://www.acme-journal.org/vol1/aitken.pdf > > Rob Fiedler, Nadine Schuurman, and Jennifer Hyndman, 2006, Improving > Census-based Socioeconomic GIS for Public Policy: Recent Immigrants, Spatially > Concentrated Poverty and Housing Need in Vancouver, Downloaded 11,214 times > http://www.acme-journal.org/vol4/RFNSJH.pdf > > Jenna M. Loyd and Andrew Burridge, 2007, La Gran Marcha: Anti-Racism and > Immigrants Rights in Southern California, Downloaded 10,460 times > http://www.acme-journal.org/vol6/JMLAB.pdf > > Jeremy W. Crampton and John Krygier, 2006, An Introduction to Critical > Cartography, Downloaded 9,455 times > http://www.acme-journal.org/vol4/JWCJK.pdf > > Arun Saldanha, 2006, Vision and Viscosity in Goa¹s Psychedelic Trance Scene, > Downloaded 9,333 times > http://www.acme-journal.org/vol4/ASa.pdf > > Heidi J. Nast, 2006, LovingŠ.Whatever: Alienation, Neoliberalism and Pet-Love > in the Twenty-First Century, Downloaded 8,978 times > http://www.acme-journal.org/vol5/HNa.pdf > > Blanca Ramirez, 2002, Globalización o Imperio: ¿Nuevas Tendencias Del > Capitalismo Contemporáneo? Downloaded 8,667 times > http://www.acme-journal.org/vol2/Ramirez-S.pdf > > Vincent J. Del Casino Jr. and Stephen P. Hanna, 2006, Beyond The ŒBinaries¹: A > Methodological Intervention for Interrogating Maps as Representational > Practices, Downloaded 8,588 times > http://www.acme-journal.org/vol4/VDCSPH.pdf > > > Top Five Most Downloaded ACME Articles over the last 25 days: > > Adam Ramadan, 2009, A Refugee Landscape: Writing Palestinian Nationalisms in > Lebanon, Downloaded 1,389 times > http://www.acme-journal.org/vol8/Ramadan09.pdf > > Martine Freedman, 2009, Se reconnaître dans un centre-ville en revitalisation. > Expériences d¹itinérants dans le quartier Saint-Roch à Québec, Downloaded 906 > times > http://www.acme-journal.org/vol8/Freedman09.pdf > > Lawrence D. Berg, 2009, Less is More. Radical Scholars Confer in the Aegean, > Downloaded 813 times > http://www.acme-journal.org/vol8/Berg09.pdf > > Amy Siciliano, 2007, La Haine: Framing the ŒUrban Outcasts¹, Downloaded 632 > times > http://www.acme-journal.org/vol6/ASi.pdf > > Graham Mowl, 2009, Obituary: Duncan Fuller, 10 January 1972 3 October 2008, > Downloaded 619 times > http://www.acme-journal.org/vol8/Mowl09.pdf > > > It is interesting to compare open access download numbers, which quickly reach > more than 1,000 downloads per article over a few months to those of articles > on subscription-only journals, which tend to get less than 500 downloads per > year. This, of course, is not a comment on the quality of articles in open- > versus closed-access journals, but only a comment on accessibility. (Indeed, > as a subscriber to TCG/LGC I¹ve read many of these articles and thoroughly > enjoyed them). For comparison, here are the top ten downloaded articles from > TCG/LGC, as reported in issue 24 of GeogNews: > > Downloads Article Author Issue > 416 The imprints of tourism on Puerto Vallarta, Jalisco, Mexico John > Everitt, Bryan H. Massam, Rosa M. Chávez-Dagostino, Rodrigo Espinosa Sánchez, > Edmundo Andrade Romo 52:1 > 346 Ghettos in Canada's cities? Racial segregation, ethnic enclaves and > poverty concentration in Canadian urban areas R. Alan Walks, Larry S. Bourne > 50:3 > 290 The restructuring of the Spanish salted fish market Knut Bjørn > Lindkvist, Lorena Gallart-Jornet, Mai Cecilie Stabell 52:1 > 258 The evolving quality of trade between Canada and the United States > Martin A. Andresen 52:1 > 226 Transnational geographies: Indian immigration to Canada Margaret > Walton-Roberts 47:3 > 216 Dealing with globalisation at the regional and local level: the case > of contemporary containerization Robert J. Mccalla, Brian Slack, Claude > Comtois 48:4 > 210 Feminist geography, the 'everyday', and global relations: hidden > spaces of place-making Isabel Dyck 49:3 > 209 'It feels like being Deaf is normal': an exploration into the > complexities of defining D/deafness and young D/deaf people's identities > Tracey Skelton, Gill Valentine 47:4 > 202 Protected areas in Canada: decade of change Philip Dearden, Jessica > Dempsey 48:2 > 191 Intimate colonialisms: the material and experienced places of British > Columbia's residential schools Sarah De Leeuw 51:3 > > > -- > Lawrence D. Berg, D.Phil. > Co-Director, The Centre for Social, Spatial & Economic Justice > http://www.chrdi.org/CSSEJ/cssejsite/Welcome.html > Graduate Coordinator, Human Geography > > Community, Culture and Global Studies > University of British Columbia > 3333 University Way > Kelowna, BC, Canada, V1V 1V7 > Voice: +1 250.807.9392, Fax: +1 250.807.8001 > Email: [log in to unmask] > WEB: http://www.chrdi.org/ldb/index.html > > Editor: ACME: An International E-Journal for Critical Geographies > http://www.acme-journal.org > > Co-Leader: BC Disabilities Health Research Network > http://www.dhrn.ca -- Lawrence D. Berg, D.Phil. Co-Director, The Centre for Social, Spatial & Economic Justice http://www.chrdi.org/CSSEJ/cssejsite/Welcome.html Graduate Coordinator, Human Geography Community, Culture and Global Studies University of British Columbia 3333 University Way Kelowna, BC, Canada, V1V 1V7 Voice: +1 250.807.9392, Fax: +1 250.807.8001 Email: [log in to unmask] WEB: http://www.chrdi.org/ldb/index.html Editor: ACME: An International E-Journal for Critical Geographies http://www.acme-journal.org Co-Leader: BC Disabilities Health Research Network http://www.dhrn.ca