Assessing Readiness for Open Access Policy Implementation across Europe
This report presents a European-wide case study for assessing EU Member State’s readiness for Open Access (OA) policy implementation – and specifically fo...
Auteur/autrice : Hans Dillaerts
Knowledge Infrastructures in Science: Data, Diversity, and Digital Libraries
Digital libraries can be deployed at many points throughout the life cycles of scientific research projects from their inception through data collection, analys...
Review times in peer review: quantitative analysis of editorial workflows
We examine selected aspects of peer review and suggest possible improvements. To this end, we analyse a dataset containing information about 300 papers submitte...
Content Volatility of Scientific Topics in Wikipedia: A Cautionary Tale
Wikipedia has quickly become one of the most frequently accessed encyclopedic references, despite the ease with which content can be changed and the potential f...
Open Access Indicators and Scholarly Communications in Latin America
This book is the result of a joint research and development project supported by UNESCO and undertaken in 2013 by UNESCO in partnership with the Public Knowledg...
Retraction policies of top scientific journals ranked by impact factor
Objective This study gathered information about the retraction policies of the top 200 scientific journals, ranked by impact factor. Methods Editors of the top ...
Publishing Ethics and Predatory Practices: A Dilemma for All Stakeholders of Science Communication
Publishing scholarly articles in traditional and newly-launched journals is a responsible task, requiring diligence from authors, reviewers, editors, and publis...