Charles Noussair Co-Authors Paper Proposing “Cross-Listing” Research

Researchers across a myriad of disciplines put countless hours into their work—from data collection and analysis to authoring papers and trying to get them published. However, even when the research may benefit multiple fields (economics and psychology, for example), currently articles reporting new research can only be published in one academic journal.  This means that researchers must choose which field to publish in, limiting the number of potential readers in other fields that do not get to see the article. Ultimately, this can hinder advancement. 

A new paper, co-authored by Charles Noussair, professor of economics in the Eller College of Management at the University of Arizona with Jason Aimone at Baylor University is working to solve this problem—with a proposal to allow “cross-listing” of articles in two journals of varying disciplines. 

Noussair and Aimone propose that journal parent publishers facilitate “cross-listed” journal publications where papers can be submitted to and peer-reviewed simultaneously by two journals, in different fields, with joint publication under a single DOI.

Overall, they present the case that cross-listing can make interdisciplinary research easier to share across various fields, speed up discoveries and give scientists and researchers the credit they deserve.