Commons-Based Peer Production in the Work of Yochai Benkler
Author : Vangelis Papadimitropoulos Yochai Benkler defines commons-based peer production as a non-market sector of information, knowledge and cultural productio...
Auteur/autrice : Hans Dillaerts
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...
Consistency of interdisciplinarity measures
Authors : Qi Wang, Jesper Wiborg Schneider Assessing interdisciplinarity is an important and challenging work in bibliometric studies. Previous studies tend to ...
Using ORCID, DOI, and Other Open Identifiers in Research Evaluation
Authors : Laurel L. Haak, Alice Meadows, Josh Brown An evaluator’s task is to connect the dots between program goals and its outcomes. This can be accomplished ...
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...
Predatory Open Access Journals Publishing: What, Why and How?
Author : Shamprasad M. Pujar The Internet has transformed scholarly publishing and made the availability of online resources possible, both in subscription and ...
On the role of openness in education: A historical reconstruction
Authors : Sandra Peter, Markus Deimann In the context of education, « open(ness) » has become the watermark for a fast growing number of learning materials and ...