Grants:Project/Rapid/WikiJournal 2018/Report

This is a report of the activity and organizational structuring of the WikiJournal User Group for the period from Jan 1 2018 to December 31 2018.

Did you meet your goals? Are you happy with how the project went?

The journals underwent great expansion this year, with two new journals publishing their first issues and adding 8 new articles to the w:Category:Wikipedia articles published in peer-reviewed literature. Since each article engages at least 2 non-wikipedian peer reviewers and often a non-wikipedian author, this also facilitated high-quality content addition and review from people who would not normally have been wikimedia contributors. As a part of this, the journals have also continued to gain further professional recognition, such as membership in the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and further indexing in scholarly databases. There has been a growth in the editorial boards of all journals of the project.

Please report on your original project targets.

Projects do not always go according to plan. Sharing what you learned can help you and others plan similar projects in the future. Help the movement learn from your experience by answering the following questions:

• Although the WikiJMed best article prize was well received by the winners, there is insufficient evidence to conclude that it increased participation. This may be due to insufficient publicity, or that cash was not a particular motivator of relevant authors.
• As will all academic publishing, the journals still struggle to secure peer reviewers, which can lead to delays. WikiJournals may struggle more from this due to being relatively new, having an unusual format, often having authors who are not 'big names' in their field. Nevertheless, many peer reviewers are enthusiastic about the project, and even those that have to decline to review frequently express their support for the concept. In general the journals have prioritised ensuring that peer reviewers are suitably qualified and that reviews are thorough, rather than pushing for shortened review deadlines.

1342,ドル whereof:

• 610ドル in remaining funds from previous year: Grant report for 2017
• 732ドル grant for 2018.

Subtotal: 1332ドル

Please describe how much grant money you spent for approved expenses, and tell us what you spent it on.

• Crossref annual fee for 2018: 275ドル
• COPE membership fee for 2018: 105ドル (81 GBP, journal got accepted from July)
• Domain fees: 36ドル
• Prize competition: 300,ドル from an initially estimated 350,ドル but the 50ドル winner regarded it not worth the international bank transfer. Bank fees of 11,ドル with 50ドル provided for the purpose. The winners are announced at: Wikiversity:WikiJournal of Medicine/Best articles of 2017.

Subtotal: 716ドル

Do you have any remaining grant funds?

• 105ドル left from COPE fee because half the year had passed before the application got approved.
• 89ドル left from prize competition: 50$ not payed to one winner who didn't think it was worth the international bank transfer + 39ドル left from funds meant for bank transfer fees.
• 400ドル left of funds directed at social media outreach.
• 21ドル left because cheaper domain hosting (by Google Domains)

Total: 615ドル

The remaining funds will be accounted for in the grant for funding through 2019, see: Grants:Project/Rapid/WikiJournal 2019

Anything else you want to share about your project?

• The journals continue their application for sister project status.
• The first all-board meeting was held in December (minutes)
• Citations in academic literature
  • None of the journals have a high citation rate according to Google Scholar. However, there are currently several uncounted citations, so can't yet be fully trusted. Articles in WikiJMed have been cited >100 times. The two highest-cited are this and this, with 45 and 26 cites respectively per Gscholar.
  • Equivalent 'Topic Page' articles in PLOS Comp Biol and PLOS Genetics have median citation rate of >30 each. We can therefore expect citaion of WikiJournal articles to increase as it becomes better known.
• AltMetric
  • Combined AltMetric report indicates 200 mentions of WikiJournal articles (with medical gallery articles highest scored, due to frequent image re-use)
• Readership
  • Readership on the journal pages is growing, with WikiJMed, WikiJHum).
• Overall stats for the three journals combined in 2018 (Note: The turnaround time between submission and decision varies):
  • 27 were submitted
  • 9 were published
  • 3 were declined
  • 1 was withdrawn from consideration

• Gained COPE membership after audit of ethics statement and editorial practices
• Indexing in Informit
• By the addition of 6 new members, the editorial board expanded to 14. One new member brought the number of associate editors to 4
• Published 1 article, with 10 articles currently in review (several have had low acceptance rates for peer reviewer invitations)

• WikiJSci published its first and second issues, including an editorial on the future of the publishing format
• The editorial board was greatly expanded from 16 to 28 plus 4 associate editors
• Published 8 articles (inc. aims editorial), with 9 currently in review
• Indexing in Informit
• Applied to DOAJ

• Registered for ISSN: 2639-5347
• WikiJHum is processing the initial article submissions including topics in history, linguistics, and literature in preparation for publication of its first issue once the ISSN is registered
• Published first article with 5 currently in review
• The editorial board has increased form 8 to 21 board members

• WikiJournal_User_Group/Reports

• Rapid Grants reports for FY 2017-18
• Rapid Grants reports
• WMF grant reports
• Grants:Project
• WMF grant reports with remaining funds reallocated to another grant submission
• Project/Rapid/Report