Vanishing industries and the rising monopoly of universities in published research
Authors : Vincent Larivière, Benoit Macaluso, Philippe Mongeon, Kyle Siler, Cassidy R. Sugimoto Anecdotes abound regarding the decline of basic research in indu...
Étiquette : scientific communication
Systematic analysis of agreement between metrics and peer review in the UK REF
Authors : Vincent Traag, Ludo Waltman When performing a national research assessment, some countries rely on citation metrics whereas others, such as the UK, pr...
Ethical Concerns in the Rise of Co-Authorship and Its Role as a Proxy of Research Collaborations
Author : Sameer Kumar Increasing specialization, changes in the institutional incentives for publication, and a host of other reasons have brought about a marke...
Enhancing scholarly communication through institutional repositories: salient issues and strategies by libraries in Nigeria
Author : Ngozi B. Ukachi The place of institutional repositories in enhancing scholarly communication is becoming obvious as academic institutions are embracing...
Scholarly Communication at the Crossroad: From subscription to Open Access?
Author : Gayle R.Y.C. Chan Recent developments in the scholarly communication ecosystem toward open access (OA) have become highly complex in how researchers di...
Open access monitoring and business model in Latin America and Middle East: a comparative study based on DOAJ data and criteria
Authors : Ivonne Lujano, Mahmoud Khalifa This research will focus on analyzing the state of open access journals in two regions of developing countries (Latin A...
The Cost of Astronomy Publishing fees in astronomy: Is something rotten in the case of Denmark?
Author : Bertil F. Dorch Using Scopus and national sources, I have investigated the evolution of the cost of publishing in Danish astronomy on a fine scale over...