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Emerging nations lead increasing output in research and publishing workflow
For years, Western European nations and North America were at the center of the scholarly publishing community. Globally submissions continue to rise, but countries such as China and India are increasing their research output relative to those established countries, showing year-on-year increases in proportion of manuscripts submitted to academic journals.
Examining the trends of submissions and evaluating acceptance and publication data reveals interesting discrepancies between traditional leaders and emerging players in scholarly publishing and raises some significant questions. In this increasingly global research community:
How can scholarly publishers manage an ever-increasing number of submissions from such diverse sources?
What factors are influencing discrepancies in regional acceptance rates? Is it a case of unintentional bias or other reasons? Can publishers address this and help content move from submission to publication without placing an undue strain on current processes?
How can new opportunities be capitalized upon to expand the global reach of published scholarship to promote quality papers from emerging research centers?
These questions are not new to the publishing community; they have felt the increased strain of this rise in submissions first hand. However, new data can help validate pain points previously hard to define and suggest solutions to gain the most benefit from managing and publishing truly global content.
ABOUT THE DATA
Data reported in this paper are provided by Thomson Reuters ScholarOne Manuscripts.* ScholarOnes customer base is reflective of the global scholarly publishing community, representing journals of all sizes and scopes, from high Impact Factor international titles to select niche, society, or regional journals. The aggregate dataset for analysis includes submissions, acceptances, rejections, and time-to-decision for 4,200 journals published by over 365 societies, publishers, and university presses. This encompasses over 3 million submissions during the analysis period 20052010. The final year of analysis, 2010, was chosen since this is the most recent year where the majority of final decisions will have been made at the time of writing. All trends indicated persist into 2011 data.
These publicationsinternational journals as well as niche and regional scholarly publicationswere collectively responsible for 1 million manuscript submissions in 2010 (1.2 million in 2011). In 2005 the total number of submissions made using ScholarOne Manuscripts was 317,325.
The data have not been normalized to reflect the growing number of sites using ScholarOne Manuscripts. The trend from clients has been initially to debut larger sites, usually in Science, Technical and Medical (STM) subjects, and then move to smaller titles, often in non-STM fields (see Figure 1). This is reflected in the average number of submissions per ScholarOne Manuscripts site: in 2005 this was 453, while in 2010 it was 280. As a result, emphasis should be placed on the relative proportions of submissions from different countries rather than the total number of submissions, which is only a measure of the size of the analysis pool.
GLOBAL SUBMISSIONS CONTINUE TO INCREASE
The ScholarOne data on global submissions reflects what publishers may have perceived from their own dataglobal submissions continue a steady rise year-by-year in all regions. This is a combination of research output and the increasing number of publications using an online submission site. Anecdotally, many publishers report submissions further increasing after implementing an online submission system, perhaps because this facilitates easier submission.
SHARE OF WORLD SUBMISSIONSIS THE TRADITIONAL AXIS OF RESEARCH CHANGING?
While submissions have increased from almost all nations, changes in each nations share of the world total paints a more complicated picture. Although the top 20 submitting countries remain largely the same from 20052010, the share of world total has significantly increased for some and decreased for others (See Table 1 and Table 2). For example, the United States remains ahead of China in total submissions processed, but the US has seen its share of the world total decrease by 3.3% while Chinas total share increased by 5.1% during the period 20052010. As Table 1 and Table 2 illustrate, many of the top submitters in 2010 have nonetheless seen their share of world total decrease or remain static as the total number of submissions increase.
Put another way, submissions from Western Europe and the United States are increasing less rapidly than in BRIC countries. From 2005-2010, the US and Japan increased submissions by 177% and 127%, respectively. However, China and India increased by 484% and 443%, and Iran and Malaysia saw a more than 800% increase in submissions (see Figure 2). Some contribution should be assumed by the increasing use of online submission systems, especially outside Western Europe and North America.
China's proportion of submissions increased 5.1 per cent and India, whose share rose 2.0 per cent. Iran's share rose 1.4 per cent.
But US submissions in 2012 - 230,826 papers - still dwarfed those from everywhere else other than China, which had 113,453. The UK was third with about 63,500, then India with 49,500 and Japan with 43,600.
Read More from the URL given or in case it does not work, read from Global Publishing: Changes in submission trends and the impact on scholarly publishers
For years, Western European nations and North America were at the center of the scholarly publishing community. Globally submissions continue to rise, but countries such as China and India are increasing their research output relative to those established countries, showing year-on-year increases in proportion of manuscripts submitted to academic journals.
Examining the trends of submissions and evaluating acceptance and publication data reveals interesting discrepancies between traditional leaders and emerging players in scholarly publishing and raises some significant questions. In this increasingly global research community:
How can scholarly publishers manage an ever-increasing number of submissions from such diverse sources?
What factors are influencing discrepancies in regional acceptance rates? Is it a case of unintentional bias or other reasons? Can publishers address this and help content move from submission to publication without placing an undue strain on current processes?
How can new opportunities be capitalized upon to expand the global reach of published scholarship to promote quality papers from emerging research centers?
These questions are not new to the publishing community; they have felt the increased strain of this rise in submissions first hand. However, new data can help validate pain points previously hard to define and suggest solutions to gain the most benefit from managing and publishing truly global content.
ABOUT THE DATA
Data reported in this paper are provided by Thomson Reuters ScholarOne Manuscripts.* ScholarOnes customer base is reflective of the global scholarly publishing community, representing journals of all sizes and scopes, from high Impact Factor international titles to select niche, society, or regional journals. The aggregate dataset for analysis includes submissions, acceptances, rejections, and time-to-decision for 4,200 journals published by over 365 societies, publishers, and university presses. This encompasses over 3 million submissions during the analysis period 20052010. The final year of analysis, 2010, was chosen since this is the most recent year where the majority of final decisions will have been made at the time of writing. All trends indicated persist into 2011 data.
These publicationsinternational journals as well as niche and regional scholarly publicationswere collectively responsible for 1 million manuscript submissions in 2010 (1.2 million in 2011). In 2005 the total number of submissions made using ScholarOne Manuscripts was 317,325.
The data have not been normalized to reflect the growing number of sites using ScholarOne Manuscripts. The trend from clients has been initially to debut larger sites, usually in Science, Technical and Medical (STM) subjects, and then move to smaller titles, often in non-STM fields (see Figure 1). This is reflected in the average number of submissions per ScholarOne Manuscripts site: in 2005 this was 453, while in 2010 it was 280. As a result, emphasis should be placed on the relative proportions of submissions from different countries rather than the total number of submissions, which is only a measure of the size of the analysis pool.
GLOBAL SUBMISSIONS CONTINUE TO INCREASE
The ScholarOne data on global submissions reflects what publishers may have perceived from their own dataglobal submissions continue a steady rise year-by-year in all regions. This is a combination of research output and the increasing number of publications using an online submission site. Anecdotally, many publishers report submissions further increasing after implementing an online submission system, perhaps because this facilitates easier submission.
SHARE OF WORLD SUBMISSIONSIS THE TRADITIONAL AXIS OF RESEARCH CHANGING?
While submissions have increased from almost all nations, changes in each nations share of the world total paints a more complicated picture. Although the top 20 submitting countries remain largely the same from 20052010, the share of world total has significantly increased for some and decreased for others (See Table 1 and Table 2). For example, the United States remains ahead of China in total submissions processed, but the US has seen its share of the world total decrease by 3.3% while Chinas total share increased by 5.1% during the period 20052010. As Table 1 and Table 2 illustrate, many of the top submitters in 2010 have nonetheless seen their share of world total decrease or remain static as the total number of submissions increase.
Put another way, submissions from Western Europe and the United States are increasing less rapidly than in BRIC countries. From 2005-2010, the US and Japan increased submissions by 177% and 127%, respectively. However, China and India increased by 484% and 443%, and Iran and Malaysia saw a more than 800% increase in submissions (see Figure 2). Some contribution should be assumed by the increasing use of online submission systems, especially outside Western Europe and North America.
China's proportion of submissions increased 5.1 per cent and India, whose share rose 2.0 per cent. Iran's share rose 1.4 per cent.
But US submissions in 2012 - 230,826 papers - still dwarfed those from everywhere else other than China, which had 113,453. The UK was third with about 63,500, then India with 49,500 and Japan with 43,600.
Read More from the URL given or in case it does not work, read from Global Publishing: Changes in submission trends and the impact on scholarly publishers
