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Reports with a purpose
Chris Hammond


Elsevier’s Journal Reports bring together a vast range of statistics on journal performance that can help editors better understand and further improve their journals. Chris Hammond, Executive Publisher, explains the details.

How have Journal Reports developed?
From a primary focus on production-related statistics, article flows, publication speeds and the regional distribution of journal authors, the reports have grown in scope over the last year to include:
• Lists of top-cited articles from Scopus,
• Regional distribution of readers on ScienceDirect,
• Author satisfaction statistics from Elsevier’s Author Feedback Program.

What do the Journal Reports show?
Charts on publication speeds, broken down per step of the process, are consistently useful in addressing journal quality issues. These charts highlight trends and give an immediate understanding of how either the production or editorial sides of the publication (or both) can handle authors’ manuscripts more quickly.

Are there any anecdotes that illustrate the benefits of Journal Reports?
When the initial report was first launched, Elsevier staff estimated that it would take around four days to get all the figures collected and drawn up in tables and graphs that were presentable. With the automation of the reports, this time was reduced to four minutes.
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