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I have given Publons a try, for what it is worth. The full purpose of it is more radical – to publish the reviews that you did, and to link them to the articles reviewed. I am not quite ready for that side of it. But to have a public record of what you reviewed is good .
On the point below about OA journals and publishing – there is a huge incongruity between the frequent calls for reform of the publishing system to be more socially just (relieving our libraries of huge commercial journal fees for one thing, and liberating our work) and what critical geographers actually do – which is, largely to publish in the ‘big five’ commercial publishers. While scientists and mathematicians led the ‘academic spring’ in 2012, social scientists hardly did much. Evidence is on the ‘cost of knowledge’ Elsevier petition and the names there.
As an alternative, I have started a list of journals that are free to readers (and therefore Open Access) and are free to authors too, or cost authors below US $500 if there is an author processing charge (APC) at all. This $ figure emerged from an earlier discussion on this list about OA – some would set it lower or insure there are author waivers. However in reality most journals on my list are completely free. Bogus journals are excluded too. The list is oriented toward my many PhD students, hence the fields listed – one listing is just Geography journals though. We should submit to those more – and for the careerists, look at ‘Environmental Health Perspectives’ for example – free to publish and read, with an impact of 7…there are a few others like that too.
These publications are part of a “community economy” for the most part, many are linked into profession geographical or other bodies, and a good number are listed on Scopus and occasionally on WofSci. It looks like it is now possible to avoid the major publishers entirely but only if authors bite the bullet and publish differently. site: https://simonbatterbury.wordpress.com/2015/10/25/list-of-oa-journals-in-my-field-geography-political-ecology/
Mistakes and additions are welcome. Economic & Political Weekly has been suggested. I don’t speak Spanish or Portuguese so I have not got to those journals yet, which are numerous. I have kept it to ones that will publish at least some papers in English. Physical geography is notably absent so far.
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From: Davide Cirillo [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Thursday, 26 November 2015 12:12 AM
Subject: Re: Credit for peer review?
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Kind regards,
Davide Cirillo
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Joint PhD Candidate
Human Geography (University of Padova)
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