چکیده:
This study, which aims to identify the internal and external issues of scientific journals in the country in relation to their subject group and publishing organization, was conducted through data collection from managers and readers of journals. The issues were categorized into two groups: external (research structure of scientific societies, political issues, legal issues) and internal (access to scientific resources, human resources, sales market, costs and financial problems). The survey data show that internal issues are more important than external issues in the publication of scientific journals in Iran, and the most important issues are economic, technical, political, and legal, respectively. Economic problems have been mentioned more by managers of private sector-affiliated journals, and for readers, the main problem is the quality of scientific journals, while managers pay attention to the equipment aspect of the journals.
خلاصه ماشینی:
Generally, and apart from special cases (some general scientific journals), we know that these journals have a wide range of topics, usually face budget problems in most cases, have a small number of readers, have no significant advertising activity, their printing and publication costs are high and often irreversible, they are usually published with financial assistance from government agencies, in many cases they do not have sufficient organization and independent management, and their publication depends on the activity of an agency or even a specific manager.
External and Internal Issues As mentioned in the problem statement, issues related to the production and publication of journals were classified into two groups: external issues (issues related to: research structure, scientific associations, political obstacles, and legal obstacles) and internal issues (issues related to: access to scientific resources, human resources, sales market, costs, and financial problems), which will be examined in order.
In scoring the importance of the country's research structure based on the type of affiliation, managers of journals affiliated with associations and groups, absolutely, and managers of journals affiliated with individuals and private institutions, more than 90 percent, emphasized the high impact.
Looking at the views of journal managers on legal problems based on subject groups, we see that for managers of engineering journals, the issue in question was considered to have a low impact with a percentage of High (84.
Managers of scientific publications in different subjects, with a high majority, and in some cases an absolute majority, considered the impact of financial problems on publishing scientific journals to be significant.
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