Open access publishers: The new players
Authors : Rosângela Schwarz Rodrigues, Ernest Abadal, Breno Kricheldorf Hermes de Araújo The essential role of journals as registries of scientific activity in ...
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Innovative Strategies for Peer Review
Author : Edward Barroga Peer review is a crucial part of research and publishing. However, it remains imperfect and suffers from bias, lack of transparency, and...
Dear Reviewer 2: Go F’ Yourself
Author : David A. M. Peterson Objectives The objective of this study was to empirically test the wide belief that Reviewer #2 is a uniquely poor reviewer. Metho...
The role of metadata in reproducible computational research
Authors : Jeremy Leipzig, Daniel Nüst, Charles Tapley Hoyt, Stian Soiland-Reyes, Karthik Ram, Jane Greenberg Reproducible computational research (RCR) is the ke...
Journal research data sharing policies: a study of highly-cited journals in neuroscience, physics, and operations research
Authors : Antti M. Rousi, Mikael Laakso The practices for if and how scholarly journals instruct research data for published research to be shared is an area wh...
Charting the Open Access scholarly journals landscape in the UAE
Author : Mohamed Boufarss The purpose of this study is to chart the scholarly journal landscape in the UAE in order to provide a scientific perspective on resea...
Open Sesame? Open access priorities, incentives, and policies among higher education institutions in the United Arab Emirates
Authors : Mohamed Boufarss, Mikael Laakso Higher education institutions (HEIs) have an instrumental role in the move towards Open Access (OA) by shaping the nat...