The gendered nature of authorship
Authors : Chaoqun Ni, Elise Smith, Haimiao Yuan, Vincent Larivière, Cassidy R. Sugimoto Authorship is the primary form of symbolic capital in science. Despite t...
Auteur/autrice : Hans Dillaerts
More readers in more places: the benefits of open access for scholarly books
Authors : Cameron Neylon, Alkim Ozaygen, Lucy Montgomery, Chun-Kai (Karl) Huang, Ros Pyne, Mithu Lucraft, Christina Emery Open access to scholarly contents has ...
Journal citation reports and the definition of a predatory journal: The case of the Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI)
Author : M. Ángeles Oviedo-García The extent to which predatory journals can harm scientific practice increases as the numbers of such journals expand, in so fa...
Dawning of a new age? Economics journals’ data policies on the test bench
Author : Sven Vlaeminck In the field of social sciences and particularly in economics, studies have frequently reported a lack of reproducibility of published r...
The state of social science research on COVID-19
Authors : Yan-Li Liu, Wen-Juan Yuan, Shao-Hong Zhu Research on COVID-19 has proliferated rapidly since the outbreak of the pandemic at the end of 2019. Many art...
The impact of geographical bias when judging scientific studies
Authors : Marta Kowal, Piotr Sorokowski, Emanuel Kulczycki, Agnieszka Żelaźniewicz The beauty of science lies within its core assumption that it seeks to identi...
Are Conference Posters Being Cited?
Authors : Nick Haupka, Cäcilia Schröer, Christian Hauschke We present a small case study on citations of conference posters using poster collections from both F...