What Value Do Journal Whitelists and Blacklists Have in Academia?
Authors : Jaime A. Teixeira da Silva, Panagiotis Tsigaris This paper aims to address the issue of predatory publishing, sensu lato. To achieve this, we offer ou...
Étiquette : scientific communication
Leveraging Concepts in Open Access Publications
Authors : Andrea Bertino, Luca Foppiano, Laurent Romary, Pierre Mounier Aim This paper addresses the integration of a Named Entity Recognition and Disambiguatio...
The future of global research: A case study on the use of scenario planning in the publishing industry
Authors : Samira Rhoods, Anca Babor Key points Scenario planning is fun and engaging and is a good opportunity to revisit your company’s core strengths an...
Do funding applications where peer reviewers disagree have higher citations? A cross-sectional study
Authors : Adrian G Barnett, Scott R. Glisson, Stephen Gallo Background Decisions about which applications to fund are generally based on the mean scores of a pa...
Sharing health research data – the role of funders in improving the impact
Authors : Robert F. Terry, Katherine Littler, Piero L. Olliaro Recent public health emergencies with outbreaks of influenza, Ebola and Zika revealed that the me...
Evaluating research and researchers by the journal impact factor: is it better than coin flipping?
Authors : Ricardo Brito, Alonso Rodríguez-Navarro The journal impact factor (JIF) is the average of the number of citations of the papers published in a journal...
OpenAPC: a contribution to a transparent and reproducible monitoring of fee-based open access publishing across institutions and nations
Authors : Dirk Pieper, Christoph Broschinski The OpenAPC initiative releases data sets on fees paid for open access (OA) journal articles by universities, funde...