Do mega-journals constitute the future of scholarly communication?: Educational Philosophy and Theory: Vol 0, No 0

"Mega-journals have swiftly advanced into the mainstream of academic communication, and may essentially alter the manners in which novel research is propagated. They have an unprecedentedly broad scope and have no theoretical confines on their possible magnitude. Tokens such as citations and downloads are ordinarily employed to supply article-specific tokens of quality, and might be enhanced by the advancement of post-publication online analysis and discussion on articles, furnishing loose tokens of community concern. Mega-journals thoroughly shift the tendency in academic publishing which has generated growing specialism, with outlets focusing on ever-narrower spheres of interest. Mega-journals provide publishers the capacity for outstanding economies of scale. Publishers can design time-saving mechanisms and combined systems for an individual journal rather than having to handle massive sets of journal titles, all with distinct standards for inclusion. Mega-journals are instrumental in substantial system-wide savings (Androniceanu, 2014

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