How open are hybrid journals included in transformative agreements?
Author : Najko Jahn The ongoing controversy surrounding transformative agreements, which aim to transition journal publishing to full open access, highlight the...
Étiquette : scholarly journals
Beyond journals and peer review: towards a more flexible ecosystem for scholarly communication
Author : Michael Wood This article challenges the assumption that journals and peer review are essential for developing,evaluating and disseminating scientific ...
Digital Scholarly Journals Are Poorly Preserved: A Study of 7 Million Articles
Author : Martin Paul Eve Introduction Digital preservation underpins the persistence of scholarly links and citations through the digital object identifier (DOI...
New academic journals: an international overview of indexing and access models
Authors : Rosangela Rodrigues, Cristóbal Urbano, Patrícia Neubert, José Miguel Rodríguez-Gairín, Marta Somoza-Fernández Introduction An international analysis o...
Judging Journals: How Impact Factor and Other Metrics Differ across Disciplines
Authors : Quinn Galbraith, Alexandra Carlile Butterfield, Chase Cardon Given academia’s frequent use of publication metrics and the inconsistencies in metrics a...
Roles and Responsibilities for Peer Reviewers of International Journals
Author : Carol Nash There is a noticeable paucity of recently published research on the roles and responsibilities of peer reviewers for international journals....
How do journals deal with problematic articles. Editorial response of journals to articles commented in PubPeer
Authors : José-Luis Ortega, Lorena Delgado-Quirós The aim of this article is to explore the editorial response of journals to research articles that may contain...