Public Finance Review

Publisher’s Report

March 2007

Contents

Editorial Development 3

SAGE’s Role in TPJ’s Development 3

The Editorial Board’s Role in TPJ’s Development 3

The Editor’s Role in TPJ’s Development 3

Journal Activity Summary 4

Circulation and Readership 4

Usage and Analysis 5

Thomson Scientific Journal Citation Reports® 9

Marketing 11

Appendix A: Additional Citation Data 12

Current Impact Factor and Ranking in Thomson Scientific Category 12

Citing and Cited-by Data 13

Appendix B: Editorial Board Participation 14

Appendix C: The Prison Journal’s Publishing Team at SAGE 15

Editorial Development

We are aware of changes in the journals market as journals progressively operate in an electronic-only or electronic-mostly publishing environment. In addition, we are responding to the needs of librarians, helping them find ways to utilize accurate measures of how much a given journal is being used and read in their libraries. It is clear that both the quality and accessibility of journal content are essential to the ongoing and future success of our journals.

We can work together towards ensuring that The Prison Journal (TPJ) is the journal of choice for top authors both for submission of their articles and in searching for relevant content for research and citation. There are various ways we can achieve this:

SAGE’s Role in TPJ’s Development

· Increasing electronic usage and citations. We will continue to arrange free access trials and other promotions to encourage usage.

· Analysis. More detailed analysis of electronic usage will help us form an accurate picture of the readership of the journal, the most popular content, and how TPJ content is found and accessed.

· Thomson Scientific. With its ranking in Thomson Scientific, we are continuing to keep TPJ as the source for high-level research and will continue to aid the editorial office by providing annual reviews of the ranking and citations for the journal in this service.

· Table of Contents Alerts. A major objective in 2006 for SAGE was to promote our Contents Alerting service and increase the number of people signing up for it. Our Contents Alerting service is a sure way of bringing users to TPJ’s webpage.

· Email alerts. In addition to the Table of Contents Alerts, readers can also register to receive alerts based on announcements, keyword and/or author, and citation. The Citation Alert can notify the reader and TPJ’s authors every time an article is cited on all journals hosted by the HighWire platform. HighWire currently hosts the online versions of all journals published by SAGE, as well as 19 other publishers, including those from the University of California, Oxford University Press, and the American Psychological Association.

The Editorial Board’s Role in TPJ’s Development

· Accept reviewing roles when possible, suggest new reviewers to the editor, and volunteer to mentor up-and-coming authors as needed.

· Proactively commission articles from highly-recognized authors as well as new academics with good ideas and strong research, and continue to recommend TPJ to your colleagues and libraries.

· Assign TPJ articles as course reading, if appropriate.

· Watch for trends and hot topics in conferences and symposia you attend, and suggest themes for special issues to the editorial office.

· Finally, when appropriate, cite TPJ when you write for other publications.

The Editor’s Role in TPJ’s Development

· Keywords. These are very important in ensuring that users find relevant articles. All articles should have keywords that accurately reflect content and are consistent with those used by academics and practitioners in the field, and with the aims and scope of the journal.

· The Editorial Board. Board members can support the journal by acting as reviewers, promoting the journal in their institutions, or encouraging submission of articles. Work with the Editor not only to review but to solicit ideas for special issues, symposia and conferences, or review article ideas, to encourage your peers and colleagues to submit their work to the journal, and to suggest authors to commission.

· Editorial office statistics. Maintain a database of submissions, author nationality, decline rates, etc. so that we can do an annual comparison to see how the journal is developing, and to prepare for implementation of manuscript submission and peer-review software. It is also useful to track trends in topics of papers submitted.

Journal Activity Summary

Circulation and Readership

The following chart details how many individuals, traditional institutions, and consortial institutions now have access to TPJ:

Subscription Type / 2004 / 2005 / 2006 / ‘05-‘06 % change
Individual / 91 / 79 / 72 / 8.9% Decrease
Member / 0 / 0 / 0 / n/a
2004 / 2005 / 2006 / ‘05-‘06 % change
Institutional – Traditional* / 356 / 345 / 313 / 9.3% Decrease
Direct Collection Sales / 98 / 120 / 131 / 9.2% Increase
Collection Sales through Consortia arrangements - / 266 / 368 / 522 / 41.8% Increase
Total Inst. Subs. / 720 / 833 / 966 / 16.0% Increase

*Traditional subscriptions are those which are purchased by institutions without being a part of a package.

The ways in which libraries are purchasing journals has changed. Many libraries still purchase individual titles directly from the publisher; we consider this a “traditional” institutional subscription. While individual and stand-alone institutional subscriptions to TPJ decreased slightly in 2006, this trend was well within our projections for institutional subscriptions. On the whole, professional and academic journals are in transition, with print subscription levels declining as readers seek online access in lieu of printed materials. SAGE conducts aggressive renewal programs to retain subscribers, and we are continuously monitoring the industry and our audiences to make both our print and online publishing programs as effective as possible.

In recent years, however, more and more libraries have joined together into buying groups, called “consortia,” through which they negotiate with publishers to buy packages of journals. SAGE’s dedicated sales team focuses on selling both to individual libraries and consortia. Just in the last year, we negotiated many major consortia deals in which TPJ is included. This now means that many more institutions, both domestic and international, have access to TPJ, as detailed in the chart above. It also means that a few of the “traditional” library subscriptions have migrated to a consortial subscription, but still have access to the journal. As part of Criminology: A SAGE Full-Text Collection and through consortia deals, TPJ has had an institutional net growth of 16%.

Current consortia that receive access to CJPR include the following:

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Confidential to TPJ and SAGE Publications

ANKOS (Turkey)

BIBSAM (Sweden)

California Digital Library (USA)

CALIS (China)

CAPES (Brazil)

CARL (USA)

CBUC (Spain)

CILEA (Italy)

Couperin (France)

CRKN (Canada)

DEF (Denmark)

EIFL (Slovenia, Serbia)

FINELIB (Finland)

HEAL-LINK (Greece)

HeBIS (Germany)

Lecce/Bari/Catania (Italy)

MALMAD (Israel)

Minitex (USA)

MLC (USA)

NEICON (Russia)

NERL (US)

Nesli2 (UK)

Niedersachsen (Germany)

OhioLink (USA)

Open Consortium (Spain)

ORBIS CASCADE (USA)

Phoenix University System (USA)

SCELC (USA)

SEIR (USA)

UALC (USA)

UKB (the Netherlands)

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SAGE Full-Text Collections

As part of Criminology: A SAGE Full-Text Collection, TPJ receives a significant amount of additional exposure. This Collection is a powerful research database that contains many of the most popular peer-reviewed journals in Criminal Justice, Juvenile Delinquency, Juvenile Justice, Corrections, Penology, Policing, Forensic Psychology, Family and Domestic Violence, and other related fields from SAGE and participating societies. An important resource for scholars, Criminology: A SAGE Full-Text Collection includes the current issues of 23 journals and up to 52 years in back content. Due to the large volume of content that is available within this product, Criminology: A SAGE Full-Text Collection appeals to libraries and consortia with relatively large budgets looking for the most complete solution to their patrons’ information needs.

Usage and Analysis

Electronic content delivery has resulted in dramatic changes in the industry over the past few years. In order to retain institutional subscriptions, it is critical that we concentrate on driving online usage among faculty, students, and researchers since librarians analyze usage statistics when making their collection management decisions. Additionally, we believe strong online usage will help increase citations, which in turn will increase the journal’s reputation and its Thomson Scientific (ISI) ranking. We have and will continue to focus on driving online usage at subscribing and non-subscribing institutions to retain circulation levels. We conduct online usage campaigns via email to faculty at subscribing institutions that highlight most-cited and most-read articles to motivate researchers to use TPJ online. We also promote online usage through exchange advertisements, website advertising, and other opportunities as they present themselves.

SAGE Journals Online provides sophisticated usage reporting that helps assess the health of each journal. The following graphs show usage for TPJ. Since the launch of SAGE Journals Online in September 2004, we have seen a dramatic increase in online usage across all SAGE journals. As a part of our efforts to promote online usage, we provide free-access periods to targeted markets on a regular basis. One such free-access period was offered in fall 2005 and again from September 6 through October 18, 2006, to institutions subscribing to at least one SAGE journal. It is important to note these periods when reviewing usage data, as “hits” and downloads tend to increase.

NOTE: Discipline average is based on 20 journals in 2005 and 22 journals in 2006. Year End (YE) totals described above are based on those averages.

Referral Statistics for TPJ from January – December 2006

The following table shows how much traffic has come to the TPJ homepage on SAGE Journals Online via various referring sites. The data shown are from January through December 2006 and clearly illustrate the importance of Google as a research tool, referring 95% of traffic to the TPJ site from these key search portals.

Total Referrals / From HighWire Portal / From Google Scholar / From Google / From Yahoo / From MSN
Home Page / 368 / 0 / 2,167 / 258 / 153
TOCs / 0 / 0 / 66 / 37 / 4
All Article Hits / 148 / 12,022 / 18,544 / 912 / 25
Abstract Views / 80 / 12,013 / 16,939 / 755 / 20
Full Text Views / 0 / 0 / 1,534 / 157 / 5
PDF Views / 68 / 9 / 71 / 0 / 0
TOTAL / 516 / 12,022 / 20,777 / 1,207 / 182

Pay-Per-View Activity

SAGE offers pay-per-view (PPV) to the full text of SAGE journal articles. PPV allows for 24-hour access to a single article. Since this service became available, TPJ has had 83 PPV purchases. We anticipate the usage of these services to increase as online awareness and usage of SAGE journal content grows. We are also able to target these PPV purchasers to encourage them to recommend TPJ to their libraries, if they don’t already subscribe.

Top 10 Accessed Articles between December 2005 – November 2006

Reference* / PDF / Abstracts / Total
Accesses / Age of article in days from 12/31/06 / Article
1 / 1,020 / 6,649 / 7,670 / 1,857 / Masturbation Uncovered: Autoeroticism in a Female Prison Author(s): Christopher Hensley, Richard Tewksbury, Mary Koscheski
December 2001; Vol 81(4); pp: 491-501
84 / 1,100 / 2,502 / 3,686 / 579 / The Effectiveness of Restorative Justice Practices: A Meta-Analysis
Author(s): Jeff Latimer, Craig Dowden, Danielle Muise
June 2005; Vol 85(2); pp: 127-144
118 / 520 / 1,780 / 2,418 / 487 / Frequency and Characteristics of Prison Escapes in the United States: An Analysis of National Data
Author(s): Richard F. Culp
September 2005; Vol 85(3); pp: 270-291
0 / 632 / 1,274 / 1,906 / 1,948 / Prisoner Reentry: Public Safety and Reintegration Challenges
Author(s): Joan Petersilia
September 2001; Vol 81(3); pp: 360-375
75 / 693 / 990 / 1,758 / 396 / Institutional Conditions and Prison Suicide: Conditional Effects of Deprivation and Overcrowding
Author(s): Meredith P. Huey, Thomas L. Mcnulty
December 2005; 85(4); pp: 490-514
104 / 555 / 1,071 / 1,730 / 306 / Social Support, Gender, and Inmate Adjustment to Prison Life: Insights From a National Sample
Author(s): Shanhe Jiang, L. Thomas Winfree
March 2006; Vol 86(1); pp: 32-55
496 / 384 / 563 / 1,443 / 1,036 / Correctional Substance Abuse Treatment Programs in California: a Historical Perspective
Author(s): Michael L. Prendergast, Harry K. Wexler
March 2004; 84(1); pp: 8-35
25 / 532 / 797 / 1,354 / 1,218 / Comparing the Quality of Confinement and Cost-Effectiveness of Public Versus Private Prisons: What We Know, Why We Do Not Know More, and Where to Go from Here
Author(s): Dina Perrone, Travis C. Pratt
September 2003; Vol 83(3); pp: 301-322
0 / 780 / 546 / 1,326 / 1,583 / The Influence of Prison Gang Affiliation on Violence and Other Prison Misconduct
Author(s): Gerald G. Gaes, Susan Wallace, Evan Gilman, Jody Klein-Saffran, Sharon Suppa
September 2002; Vol 82(3); pp: 359-385
118 / 402 / 805 / 1,325 / 306 / Drug Offenses, Gender, Ethnicity, and Nationality: Women in Prison in England and Wales
Author(s): Janice Joseph
March 2006; Vol 86(1); pp: 140-157

*Reference views refer to the separate page of citations for each article. These contain full reference listings in HTML format and include the toll-free citation links to those articles also hosted on SAGE Journals Online or HighWire Press, as well as links to the full text or abstracts of other articles through Thomson Scientific (formerly ISI), MEDLINE, Infotreive, and CrossRef.