Publish and Who Should Perish: You or Science?
Author : Ádám Kun Something is wrong with science as there is an increasing amount of unreliable, manipulated and outright faked results appearing in the litera...
Auteur/autrice : Hans Dillaerts
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...
Library-Mediated Deposit: A Gift to Researchers or a Curse on Open Access? Reflections from the Case of Surrey
Authors : Christine Antiope Daoutis, Maria de Montserrat Rodriguez-Marquez The University of Surrey was one of the first universities to set up an open access r...
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...
Are the FAIR Data Principles Fair?
Authors : Alastair Dunning, Madeleine de Smaele, Jasmin Böhmer This practice paper describes an ongoing research project to test the effectiveness and relevance...
Integration of an Active Research Data System with a Data Repository to Streamline the Research Data Lifecyle: Pure-NOMAD Case Study
Authors : Simone Ivan Conte, Federica Fina, Michalis Psalios, Shyam Ryal, Tomas Lebl, Anna Clements Research funders have introduced requirements that expect re...
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...