Judging Journals: How Impact Factor and Other Metrics Differ across Disciplines
Authors : Quinn Galbraith, Alexandra Carlile Butterfield, Chase Cardon Given academia’s frequent use of publication metrics and the inconsistencies in metrics a...
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Why are these publications missing? Uncovering the reasons behind the exclusion of documents in free-access scholarly databases
Authors : Lorena Delgado-Quirós, Isidro F. Aguillo, Alberto Martín-Martín, Emilio Delgado López-Cózar, Enrique Orduña-Malea, José Luis Ortega This study analyse...
The Predatory Paradox : Ethics, Politics, and Practices in Contemporary Scholarly Publishing
Authors : Amy Koerber, Jesse C. Starkey, Karin Ardon-Dryer, R. Glenn Cummins, Lyombe Eko, Kerk F. Kee In today’s ‘publish or perish’ academic setting, the insti...
Measured in a context: making sense of open access book data
Author : Ronald Snijder Open access (OA) book platforms, such as JSTOR, OAPEN Library or Google Books, have been available for over a decade. Each platform show...
Academic co-authorship is a risky game
Authors : Teddy Lazebnik, Stephan Beck, Labib Shami Conducting a project with multiple participants is a complex task that involves multiple social, economic, a...
The use of shadow libraries at Universitas Indonesia
Authors : Fauzan Eka Kusuma, Rahmi Rahmi Shadow libraries (SLs), such as Sci-Hub, Z-Library, and Library Genesis (LibGen), are online databases that provide con...
The Importance of Single Source Publishing in Scientific Publishing
Authors : Antoine Fauchié, Yann Audin Academic publishing currently raises several issues, such as the production of multiple artifacts from a single source. Th...