Professor of Risk and Disaster Reduction at University College London, United Kingdom.
Professor of Geography at the University of Auckland, New Zealand, and is Extraordinary Professor in the Unit for Environmental Sciences and Management at North West University, South Africa.
Disasters. 2021 Jan;45(1):5-18. doi: 10.1111/disa.12432. Epub 2020 Mar 20.
Nowadays there are approximately 80 Anglophone journals that deal primarily with disaster risk reduction (DRR) and allied fields. This large array signals a sustained, if uneven, growth in DRR scholarship but also competition between the offerings of different publishers and institutions. The purpose of this article is first to summarise the development of academic publishing on DRR from its early beginnings to the present day. The paper then evaluates the current state of publishing in this field and discusses possible future trends. Next, it identifies some possible opportunities, challenges, expectations, and commitments for journal editors both within DRR and academia more broadly, including those that refer to changes in the use of terminology, the relentless increase in the number of papers submitted, the expansion and dangers of predatory journals, different peer review models, open access versus paywalls, citations and bibliography metrics, academic social networks, and copyright and distribution issues.
如今，约有 80 种英语期刊主要关注灾害风险减少（DRR）及相关领域。这一庞大的期刊阵容表明，DRR 学术研究虽然发展不均衡，但一直在持续增长，不同出版商和机构之间的竞争也在加剧。本文首先概述了灾害风险减少学术出版从早期至今的发展情况。接着，本文评估了该领域当前的出版状况，并讨论了未来可能的发展趋势。然后，它确定了 DRR 领域内的期刊编辑以及更广泛的学术界可能面临的一些机会、挑战、期望和承诺，其中包括术语使用的变化、提交论文数量的不断增加、掠夺性期刊的扩张及其危险、不同的同行评审模式、开放获取与付费墙、引文和参考书目指标、学术社交网络以及版权和分发问题。
