Beyond Rankings: Publishing for Impact, Not Index

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Summary

Forget rankings, focus on impact! This book empowers publishers to maximize journal reach and readership, driving research utilization for real-world solutions.

 

Beyond Rankings: Publishing for Impact, Not Index

Forget rankings — focus on impact. The purpose of publishing a journal is not indexing in top-ranked databases but being read and cited by researchers worldwide. This book shows journal owners and publishers how XML output — the format most library systems rely on — connects their content to readers everywhere.

Cover of the book Beyond Rankings: Publishing for Impact, Not Index

Publisher

Brieflands STM Publisher, 1st Edition

Publication date

October 9, 2020

Print length

54 pages

Language

Persian (with English abstract)

Sponsored by

Salamat Pooyan

Audience

Editors and publishers of academic and STM journals

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The full text is freely available under a CC BY-NC 4.0 licence. A print edition is available on Amazon; for commercial use or additional permissions, contact the publisher.

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About this book

The primary goal of publishing a journal is not merely to achieve indexing in top-ranked databases, but to ensure it is read and cited by researchers worldwide — because that is how research contributes to solving health challenges and improving quality of life.

Effective distribution requires tools compatible with most libraries, and XML output is one of the most reliable formats for this purpose. This book introduces XML output step by step, guiding journal owners and publishers in building better connections between their content and global library systems — a comprehensive grounding in XML integration for academic publishing.

Topics covered

XML for academic publishing, from tag set to library delivery.

  • XML fundamentals
  • PMC DTD XML
  • Journal meta
  • Article meta
  • pub-id-type
  • subj-group
  • contrib-type
  • xref tags
  • Table tags
  • Figure tags
  • PDF tags
  • XML MEDLINE technical documentation
  • EndNote & XML tags
  • Word DOCX & XML integration
  • EndNote & specified libraries

Copyright. This book is freely available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial 4.0 License. For commercial use or further permissions, contact the publisher.