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Evolving

landscape of publishing

in South Asia

Economists like Adam Smith had
long established a relationship
between scientific research and
economic growth. The core ethos
of a publishing company also
makes a difference in how it
functions on a broader platform
and how it translates research to
and from the research community.
We need to acknowledge that the
original purpose of research is to
have a real-world impact, which
goes beyond citation counts. It
is about communities coming research trends, UN SDGs, Real
together to find solutions that Impact, to name a few, besides
result in positive change and to conducting sessions explaining
recognise the researchers behind the publishing process.
it. Within Emerald Publishing,
we refer to impact as the provable For many decades the publishing The challenge
effects of research in the real industry has been inching towards
world. a more Open Access world. for journal
Unfortunately, research continues editors and
In the last 20 years, the definition to be stuck in a vicious cycle
of quality publications has of the need to make it freely publishing houses
evolved even further. With available, capture downloads and
indexing bodies like Scopus, Web citations information, maintain is not publishing
of Science, and ABDC, among quality for indexing, and the content but
others, that have set parameters expenses that these processes
on the quality of publication, garner. In general, governments, keeping a
the challenge for journal editors institutes, and publishers have
and publishing houses is not been predicting research and conscious focus
publishing content but keeping a publishing trends to make the on what content
conscious focus on what content best decisions. However, if
to publish. With that in mind, the determining trends was not to publish
more recent years have seen more difficult enough, the pandemic
cohesive efforts and conversations has thrown a curveball that
between institutes and publishers changed the way we accessed and
to support researchers. We are disseminated education, research,
now discussing Open Access, and knowledge.

22 September 2021