%T The value of a journal is the community it creates, not the papers it publishes
%A Lucy Montgomery
%A Cameron Neylon


%I LSE Impact Blog
%D 2019

%K Academic publishing, %K Publishers and publishing, %K Academic writing, %K Knowledge transfer, %K Journals



%U https://apo.org.au/node/232576

%X When we think about the value of journal publishing, we have a tendency to think in terms of costs per article and the potential for new technologies to reduce these costs. In this post, Lucy Montgomery and Cameron Neylonargue that we should instead focus on the social life of journals and the knowledge communities they sustain.
%9 Blog post