After three
years of operation, we have established a strong foundation, with over 160
articles and commentaries published. We have also assembled 11 special
themes overseen by Guest Editors that cover topics such as ‘the cloud, the
crowd and the city’ and ‘practicing, materializing and contesting environmental
data.’ We have been accepted into the Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI),
which will benefit our authors by giving our published papers greater
discoverability, leading to increased citations. We have calculated our Impact
Factor (IF) for 2016 at 1.925 (we are still waiting for Clarivate
Analytics’ response to our request to be indexed). And we have migrated to a
new platform - Atypon’s Literatum platform - that has improved
functionality and navigation possibilities.
We have also
merged the Early Career Researcher Forum with the Commentaries section and will
be actively soliciting contributions from researchers at different stages of
their careers. Guidelines on all types of submissions to the Journal can
be found here.
Finally, after
a successful beginning to our section on Special Themes we will now be making
an annual call for proposals in June of each year. These will be announced on
the blog and Twitter.
Open Access
We are an Open
Access journal but our initial three year waiver of article processing charges
(APCs) has ended. As of July 2017 original research articles (ORA) accepted
after peer review are now subject to an Open Access APC of $800. Authors who do
not have funding for Open Access publishing can request a waiver from the
publisher, SAGE, once their ORA is accepted after peer review. For all other
content (Commentaries, Editorials, Demos) and ORAs commissioned by the Editor
as part of Special Themes, the APC will be waived. We look forward to your
submissions and continuing to publish critical work on the changing landscape
of Big Data and society.
