Grants talk:Project/Rapid/WikiJournal 2019/Report

Comments from I JethroBT (WMF)

Hello Mikael Häggström and Evolution and evolvability, and thank you for preparing this final report on WikiJournal. I am approving your report with the following comments and questions:

• Thank you for preparing a full report of your activities and achievements. It's great to see your successes in continuing to develop an editorial board and a body of associate editors to support WikiJournal publications across several domains, as well as setting up goals and a foundation for future technical improvements through Phabricator and a technical wishlist.
• Congratulations on this recognition from Open Publishing Awards! This quote from the award page I thought was particularly striking: WikiJournals could be the ultimate paradoxical conclusion of the battle between legacy post-paper publication models and the web, romantic notions of authorship, and networked collaboration. Whatever the case, it is provocative, fascinating, and quite successful on its own terms. Of course without open content, this model would not be possible. This, together with the use of open source software and an interesting model for open access publishing, makes WikiJournals a standout open project.
• One of the measures proposed in the Impact section of your proposal was the impact of individual journal, including both direct and indirect metrics of journal performance, i.e. indirect measures like impact factor by tracking the number of citations / references of the articles published in this journal being made in academic works other than within the journal, alongside other direct measures of impact. Do you have any information to share on these direct / indirect indicators of impact for specific journals.?
• Another one of your goals was to assess whether users found their way to WikiJournals through DOI links-- do you have a sense about how effective these links were at bringing in users vs. other approaches you employed? (e.g. conference proceedings, contacting GA/FA article authors, etc.)

Thanks again for your hard work at maintaining and further developing this open source publication! I JethroBT (WMF) (talk) 20:02, 30 March 2020 (UTC)