The phrase "average journal" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a journal that is typical or standard in quality or content, often in comparison to others.
Example: "In my research, I found that the average journal in this field publishes around five articles per issue."
Alternatives: "typical journal" or "standard journal".
Since 1986, as the average journal price more than tripled, libraries have increased their spending on collections more than 130percentt, according to the Association of Research Libraries.
Indeed, he predicts that for the average journal today, five extra years' worth of online availability will cause a precipitous drop in the number of articles receiving one or more citations from 600 to 200 a year.
From1986 to 2006, the increase in the average journal subscription price is 180%.
Discipline Average journal cost Chemistry $3,490 Physics $3,103 Engineering $1,919 Biology $1,810 Technology $1,776.
It is however highly common to assess scientific impact in terms of average journal citation rates.
The average journal impact factor was 10.34, and values ranged from 1.71 to 52.59.
The average Elsevier journal license cost 3400 euros ($4693) per year, three times as high as licenses offered by the second-priciest publisher, the university said in a statement.
Concordance within this methodologically minded cohort of reviewers might be expected to be, if anything, higher than for the average clinical journal.
The credibility of published research is heavily dependent upon the peer review process, yet the average African journal has only a limited number of manuscript reviewers.
In medicine, it is commonly asserted that being a 'good' doctor is not (just) about performance in exams, and that other factors that are harder to measure and changeable make the difference between good, poor and average doctors (Journal British Medical, 2002).
On average OA journals publish far fewer articles per annum than subscription based ones [15], and thus the share of OA articles in the total global article volume is much lower than the share of titles.
