PRINCIPIA: a Decentralized Peer-Review Ecosystem
Authors : Andrea Mambrini, Andrea Baronchelli, Michele Starnini, Daniele Marinazzo, Manlio De Domenico Peer review is a cornerstone of modern scientific endeavo...
Auteur/autrice : Hans Dillaerts
Digital Editions and Version Numbering
Author : Paul A. Broyles Digital editions are easily modified after they are first published — a state of affairs that poses challenges both for long-term schol...
Research methodology and characteristics of journal articles with original data, preprint articles and registered clinical trial protocols about COVID-19
Authors : Mahir Fidahic, Danijela Nujic, Renata Runjic, Marta Civljak, Zvjezdana Lovric Makaric, Livia Puljak Background The research community reacted rapidly ...
Problematizing ‘predatory publishing’: A systematic review of factors shaping publishing motives, decisions, and experiences
Authors : David Mills, K. Inouye This article systematically reviews recent empirical research on the factors shaping academics’ knowledge about, and moti...
Global Flow of Scholarly Publishing and Open Access
Author : Olivier Pourret Open access is not a new topic for Elements. The topic was addressed by Alex Speer, Kevin Murphy, and Sharon Tahirkheliin 2013 (Speer e...
Genuine semantic publishing
Authors : Tobias Kuhn, Michel Dumontier Various approaches and systems have been presented in the context of scholarly communication for what has been called se...
Open Science and Its Enemies: Challenges for a Sustainable Science–Society Social Contract
Author : Venni V. Krishna Science as a social institution has evolved as the most powerful, highly influential, and sought out institution after the conflicts b...