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Most respondents have
read two or fewer of the
past four issues of their
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preferred journal
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.
83.1
80 75.2
83.1
journals—consistently revealing across
62.3
preferred journals that interactive graphics,
60
data, and references would be found of most
use. This is particularly so among respond-
ers who prefer the Journal of Computational
40
and Graphical Statistics (JCGS).
31.9
29.2
Respondents also were asked to sub-
20.2
mit open-ended answers to this question, 20
to which the most popular replies were
“increased search tool sophistication,”
“email alerts,” “more content, especially sur- 0
vey methods,” and “more journals online.”
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s s s
Interestingly, survey respondents do not
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access non-ASA–supported statistical jour-
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nals (Annals of Statistics; Annals of Applied
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Probability; Statistical Science; Journal of the
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tive Graphics &
Royal Statistical Society Series A, B, and/or C;
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Biometrika; Biometrics; The SIAM Journal of
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Video & Audio
Social Net
Statistical Computing) in great proportions.
Among the journals about which the survey
Figure 2. Sorted order of features by average % finding useful or very useful – across
inquired, the greatest proportion of respon-
preferred journals
dents (33%) access Biometrics, and do so
with a mix of printed and online access.
JASA and TAS continue to be the ASA’s
preferred journals, while TAS and SBR
Table 4 — Percent Indicating New Features Would be Useful or Very Useful – by
receive the most favorable ratings. Most
Preferred Journal
readers—across all ASA journals—browse
tables of contents and abstracts, and do not
Features JASA TAS JBES JCGS JABES TECH SBR Average
read cover-to-cover. When they do read,
it is a few times a year and it is generally
for furthering professional work. Positive
Interactive
Graphics & 64.4 63.0 65.5 70.0 51.7 60.8 60.7 62.3
comments were made about all journals in
Figures
the study, and while almost everyone likes
to have full text online, a fair proportion
Interactive
still like their printed copy. In the future,
Supplemental 74.6 72.4 80.0 82.5 75.9 77.5 63.8 75.2
readers would like to have more web-based,
Data
interactive access to journal content.
Linked
Upcoming Survey
References
85.2 81.9 83.6 90.0 79.3 82.5 79.3 83.1
In an upcoming survey planned for the
latter half of 2008, the ASA Membership
Podcasts 19.0 18.6 25.0 30.3 7.4 18.3 23.1 20.2
Surveys Committee will focus on ASA-
Video & Audio
sponsored meetings—national, regional,
Presentations
27.9 19.3 43.4 41.0 14.3 42.1 35.1 31.9
sectional, chapter, etc.—also with an aim
toward identifying areas of improvement
Social
and broadened outreach. Should you
Networking 18.1 23.2 44.5 35.5 13.8 29.3 40.0 29.2
be selected in our sample, thank you in
Capabilities
advance for your participation! n
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