About this Episode
Dan and James are joined by Jason Hoyt, who is the CEO and co-founder of PeerJ, an open access journal for the biological and medical sciences.
Here's some of what they cover:
- PeerJ’s model and how it got started
- What goes into running a journal
- Impact factors vs. low-cost publishing
- When the journal user experience is too good
- Getting a quick reviewer turnaround
- The need scientists to change their practices (not publishers)
- PeerJ’s membership model
- Glamour journals
- Future plans for PeerJ
- Predatory journals
- Researchers don’t want cheap journals, only impact factors
Links
- PeerJ: https://peerj.com
- The Phoenix project: https://www.amazon.com/Phoenix-Project-DevOps-Helping-Business-ebook/dp/B00AZRBLHO
- The Goal: https://www.amazon.com/Goal-Process-Ongoing-Improvement-ebook/dp/B002LHRM2O/ref=pd_sim_351_2?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=EMTE1M9W2XW5Q24X4GE8
Music credits: Lee Rosevere freemusicarchive.org/music/Lee_Rosevere/
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