Guidelines for open peer review implementation
Authors : Tony Ross-Hellauer, Edit Görögh Open peer review (OPR) is moving into the mainstream, but it is often poorly understood and surveys of researcher atti...
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Production and uptake of Open Access publications involving the private sector: the case of big pharma
Authors : Afredo Yegros-Yegros, Thed van Leeuwen Over the last years Open Access has been ranked very high on science policy agenda’s both internationally as we...
Is Scopus Polluting Its Own Database by Indexing Junk articles? A Case Study of Five Journals
Author : Jackie Earle Haley The aim of this short research note is to demonstrate that Scopus is polluting its own databases, unintentionally or otherwise, by i...
Intellectual contributions meriting authorship: Survey results from the top cited authors across all science categories
Authors : Gregory S. Patience, Federico Galli, Paul A. Patience, Daria C. Boffito Authorship is the currency of an academic career for which the number of paper...
Quality of reports of investigations of research integrity by academic institutions
Authors : Andrew Grey, Mark Bolland, Greg Gamble, Alison Avenell Background Academic institutions play important roles in protecting and preserving research int...
Peer Review Bias: A Critical Review
Authors : Samir Haffar, Fateh Bazerbachi, M. Hassan Murad Various types of bias and confounding have been described in the biomedical literature that can affect...
Is open access affordable? Why current models do not work and why we need internet‐era transformation of scholarly communications
Author : Toby Green Progress to open access (OA) has stalled, with perhaps 20% of new papers ‘born‐free’, and half of all versions of record pay‐walled; why? In...