Optimal Publishing Strategies
Abstract
Journals regulate a significant portion of the communication between scientists. This paper devises an agent-based model of scientific practice and uses it to compare various strategies for selecting publications by journals. Surprisingly, it appears that the best selection method for journals is to publish relatively few papers and to select those papers it publishes at random from the available “above threshold” papers it receives. This...
Paper Details
Title
Optimal Publishing Strategies
Published Date
Jun 1, 2009
Journal
Volume
6
Issue
2
Pages
185 - 199
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