Abstract
A census of prestige journals (those included in the ISI's Journal Citation Reports) in six fields (business, communication, geology, meteorology, physiology, and social psychology) showed that 97% of journals in those fields in 2008 were in transition between print and electronic. Two percent were distributed only in print; one percent was distributed in electronic format only. Electronic-only journals had a higher reputational value than print-only journals. The Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, a native electronic-only journal, had the fourth-highest reputational value among communication journals and had the highest reputational value among all electronic-only journals examined. Strong emerging trends in the sciences for eliminating print copies of journals are noted.
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