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The ICL journal Landslides - 16 years of capacity development for landslide risk reduction Matjaž Mikoš, Kyoji Sassa, Željko Arbanas Abstract Capacity building and capacity development for landslide risk reduction is an important pillar of the International Consortium on Landslides, Kyoto, Japan. This non-governmental organization with close to 100 full members, associates and supporters was established in 2001, and among many activities in this first two decades we may raise the latest overreaching one, namely the Sendai Partnerships 2015- 2025 as the free commitment to Sendai Framework on Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030. The Kyoto Commitment 2020 to be discussed and accepted at 5th World Landslide Forum in Kyoto in November 2020, again stresses the importance for the ICL to raise awareness and enhance preparedness for landslide disasters as the ICL efforts for capacity building and capacity development in this field. The ICL stimulates landslide research that has to support capacity building for landslide risk reduction. Springer Nature publishes the journal Landslides: Journal of the International Consortium on Landslides since 2004. Being examined in the past by different authors from bibliometric and editorial point of view, this review paper focuses on the journal's 16 years of achievements (2004-2019). In these 16 years, 1313 papers were published on 16,286 pages, written by 5,534 authors and with more than 1.1 million downloads and nearly 25,000 citations as in early 2020. The bibliometric analysis of Landslides and its comparison with a few selected similar journals of high reputation, among them Engineering Geology and Bulletin of Engineering Geology and the Environment, confirmed high rankings of Landslides in the research categories of geological & geotechnical engineering and engineering geology. Strong and weak points are discussed from the bibliometric point of view, stressing the need for higher internationality of co-authorship of published articles in order to be true international journal. Continuous publishing and the move to a monthly journal in 2018 has further increase journal's h-index and cited half-life of citations, but further editorial efforts should be directed to attract excellent review papers and focused technical notes to increase cites per paper and the number of Highly Cited papers. Until 2020, Landslides is the foremost journal in the field of landslide disaster risk reduction, and the top young international journal in the fields of geotechnical engineering and engineering geology. Keywords Capacity development, citation analysis, education, international collaboration, journal metrics, scientometric analysis Introduction The main aim of Landslides is to promote landslide science, technology, capacity building and capacity The first issue of the international journal Landslides: development, and to strengthen global cooperation for Journal of International Consortium on Landslides was landslide risk reduction within the United Nations published in April 2004 (Springer 2020). Nowadays it is International Strategy for Disaster Risk Reduction published by the international publishing company (ISDR). Landslides is one of the main achievements of Springer Nature. The Editor-in-Chief is Professor the International Consortium on Landslides, based in Emeritus Kyoji Sassa, the Assistant Editor-in-Chief is Kyoto, Japan. Landslides presents also an important ICL Professor Željko Arbanas (both co-authors of this contribution to the world efforts within the Sendai paper), there are eleven Associate Editors (one of them Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015–2030. is first author of this paper) and ten Advisory Members. Critically analyzing a journal from a bibliometric The journal is supported by over hundred editors and and editorial point of view is an important task. Sassa et over thousand reviewers, and the whole process is al. (2009) reviewed the achievements of Landslides in supported by a web-based manuscript submission and the first 5 years (2004–2008), and Sassa et al. (2015) did peer-review tracking system (e.g. Editorial Manager®). the same for the next 5 years (2009–2013). Sassa and M. Mikoš, K. Sassa, Ž. Arbanas Arbanas (2017) discussed the achievements of Review papers: review of current research and Landslides from 2004 until September 2016. They development of technology in a thematic area of stressed the importance of the Journal Impact Factor landslide studies. (Clarivate Analytics) for visibility and reputation of the Recent Landslides: reports of recent landslides journal. They presented data on annual impact factors, including location. 5-year impact factors, and citation data for most cited Technical Notes: research notes, reviews notes, papers and for single journal volumes. Furthermore, case studies, progress of technology, and best they discussed and presented the view of the journal practice in monitoring, testing, investigation and Editorial Board and some aspects of their editorial mitigation measures. policy, such as article categories, classification of IPL/WCoE Activities: Progress of IPL projects, articles, editorial workflow, article downloading rates, World Centres of Excellence on Landslide Risk and journal’s best paper award. Reduction (WCoEs), and other IPL activities. Mikoš (2011) used data from ISI Web of Knowledge News/Kyoto Commitment: news, reports, and Scopus for the first seven volumes of Landslides announcement of meetings, and all types of (2004–2010). He evaluated the current position of the articles promoting the Kyoto Landslide journal in the landslide research community from a Commitment 2020. broader perspective than just using impact factor, The description of categories changed during the journal ranking in a subject category and article period 2004-2019, some categories were omitted (e.g. downloading data. Other journal metrics, available at Technical Development, ICL/IPL Activities), and some the time of the analysis, such as journal relatedness to were introduced (Thematic papers) in a later publishing other journals in the same field of science, citations stage of Landslides. In this review paper, category half-life, immediacy impact, journal self-citations, Thematic papers was added to category Original papers, Eigenfactors, Article Influence Score, and journal h- category Technical Development was added to category index, give a more detailed picture of Landslides. Technical Notes, category ICL/IL Activities was added to Mikoš (2017) addressed the question from the category IPL/WCoE Activities, category News was paper’s title—is Landslides a top international journal added to category News/Kyoto Commitment, all other in the field of geological engineering and engineering published documents in Landslides were associated to geology? To answer this question, he performed a the category Other items, including editorials, prefaces, bibliometric (scientometric) analysis of the first 13 discussions and replies, correction, erratum, retraction volumes of Landslides (2004–2016). He used different and book reviews. journal metrics (impact factor, 5-year impact factor, the number of highly cited papers, cited half-life of Journal Metrics published papers, and Hirsch h-index) derived from the The idea of the Impact Factor (IF) was introduced in Web of Science (Clarivate Analytics 2017), Scopus 1951 by Eugen Garfield (Garfield, 1955), and it has (Elsevier 2017), and Google Scholar (Google 2017) for received support and criticism ever since (Garfield, journals in the SCI category “geological engineering” 2006). Today, the quality of a journal can be measured and SCI category “multidisciplinary geosciences”. by numerous bibliometric parameters: impact factor Furthermore, he examined the journal’s internationality (IF), 5-year impact factor, number of highly-cited in publishing articles using data on the domicile papers, cited half-life, citing half-life, journal h-index, (country, institution) of authors and classification of etc. Many more indices have been proposed, for a articles published in Landslides. recent overview see Lando and Bertoli-Barsotti (2014). This paper follows the approach of the paper Mikoš The main databases now used for journal (2017) by using Web of Science, Journal Citation bibliometric analyses are the Web of Science (WoS) by Reports, InCites and Essential Science Indicators Clarivate Analytics, and Elsevier’s Scopus database. database produced by Clarivate Analytics, and SCOPUS Recently, Google Scholar is frequently used, especially database by Elsevier in considering the first 16 years of as it is free of charge and it yields higher bibliometric Landslides (2004–2019) in the view of capacity values due to its wide coverage of literature and development for landslide risk reduction. documents. Therefore, when evaluating a journal for its reputation, it would be an advantage and less biased to Materials and Methods use several databases and several journal metrics. In Categories of Articles in Landslides this review paper Google Scholar data were not used. The journal Landslides publishes articles in six major categories (Sassa, 2019b): Clarivate Analytics’ Web of Knowledge (WoK) Original papers: original research and investigation InCites Benchmarking & Analytics is a customized, results. web-based evaluation and research tool for bibliometric 2 The ICL journal Landslides – 16 years of capacity development for landslide risk reduction research among others (Clarivate Analytics, 2020). SNIP - Source Normalized
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