Friends,

Dr. Kumar's comment on one question is significant:

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(c) Are authors submitting to JRP to get feedback to publish elsewhere?

This, IMHO, happens to be a common practise with many of us. Primarily this
happens because we need to show publications in top-notch journals. What I feel
is that JRP is going in the right direction and this problem should disappear as
JRP becomes more respcted in the academic world.

--snip--

The challenge we face as a new journal is to rise in quality and visibility
both. In addition to the general question of influence and impact, many
university research policies effectively emphasize publishing in journals listed
in Thompson ISI or Scopus indexes. Some national policies do the same.

Further, the criteria of many research policies effectively discourage
interdisciplinary publishing.

By its very nature, JRP is interdisciplinary. We can't change that -- and we
shouldn't.

We can, however, help to gain better index coverage for JRP.

JRP editor D P Dash found that there is mechanism for anyone to recommend a
journal for inclusion in the Thomson Reuters journal databases, the ISI Web of
Science. If you use this link, it will take you to the Thomson Reuters web page
that allows you to recommend a journal for coverage:

http://scientific.thomsonreuters.com/info/journalrec/

Please take this opportunity to recommend JRP for coverage in ISI.

Yours,


Ken Friedman, PhD, DSc (hc), FDRS
Professor
Dean

Swinburne Design
Swinburne University of Technology
Melbourne, Australia

Telephone +61 3 9214 6755
www.swinburne.edu.au/design