Assessment of potential bias in research grant peer review in Canada
Authors : Robyn Tamblyn, Nadyne Girard, Christina J. Qian, James Hanley BACKGROUND Peer review is used to determine what research is funded and published, yet l...
Étiquette : scientific communication
Is Predatory Publishing a Real Threat? Evidence from a Large Database Study
Authors : Marcelo Perlin, Takeyoshi Imasato, Denis Borenstein Using a database of potential, possible, or probable predatory scholarly open-access journals, the...
The Journal Impact Factor: A brief history, critique, and discussion of adverse effects
Authors : Vincent Lariviere, Cassidy R. Sugimoto The Journal Impact Factor (JIF) is, by far, the most discussed bibliometric indicator. Since its introduction o...
Comparing scientific and technological impact of biomedical research
Author : Qing Ke Traditionally, the number of citations that a scholarly paper receives from other papers is used as the proxy of its scientific impact. Yet cit...
Tweet success? Scientific communication correlates with increased citations in Ecology and Conservation
Authors : Clayton T. Lamb, Sophie L. Gilbert, Adam T. Ford Science communication is seen as critical for the disciplines of ecology and conservation, where res...
Pubpeer: vigilante science, journal club or alarm raiser? The controversies over anonymity in post-publication peer review
Author : Didier Torny The more journal peer review (JPR) became a scientific topic, the more it has been the subject of criticisms and controversies. Repeated f...
Converting the Literature of a Scientific Field to Open Access through Global Collaboration: The Experience of SCOAP3 in Particle Physics
Authors : Alexander Kohls, Salvatore Mele Gigantic particle accelerators, incredibly complex detectors, an antimatter factory and the discovery of the Higgs bos...