Our faculty has just launced peer-reviewed journal (Review of Business and Economics Studies, http://robes.fa.ru/, available in printed form and in open access). We had positive feedback on it from Elsevier et al., have plans to be indexed by Scopus, etc. The problem of every new journal is the same: how to attract good papers? We already used personal contacts, "hard" copies of journal sent with welcome letters, emails to international colleagues, linkedin; publishing with us is free, and we were met with enthusiasm, and often with complaints how hard is to publish in more "established" journal, and what a brilliant opportunity is our journal. But the real output (measured in papers) is in fact quite low. How to access all that struggling young (and perhaps not so young) authors, without significantly taking quality tradeoff to the negative side?
For example, I see on ResearchGate many researchers in business, economics, finance and neighboring fields (computer science, sustainability, energy, etc.), especially from emerging markets (and we are especially interestd in evidence from emerging markets). They ask questions, which indicates that they are conducting research and are perhaps interested in getting more exposure to academic community. But they have no published papers in their profiles. Is it OK to contact them directly thought ResearchGate, or it would be considered spam? Is it OK to post some announcement under relevant tag, say, "Emerging markets" or "Sustainability" or "Quantitative finance"?
If no, are there alternative ways of getting them exposed to our calls for papers? We also are conducting bi-monthly online/offline conferences on various business/finance/economics topics, how to inform ResearchGate community?
And finally, are there some alternative ways of attracting authors, which I haven't mentioned?
I can tell my colleagues about this Review of Business and Economics Studies. It's only now that I've learned about it. It appears that you do not have sufficient internet exposure (yet). ;-)
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