The Platformisation of Scholarly Information and How to Fight It
Author : Lai Ma The commercial control of academic publishing and research infrastructure by a few oligopolistic companies has crippled the development of open ...
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Roles and Responsibilities for Peer Reviewers of International Journals
Author : Carol Nash There is a noticeable paucity of recently published research on the roles and responsibilities of peer reviewers for international journals....
Academia should stop using beall’s lists and review their use in previous studies
Authors : Jaime A. Teixeira da Silva, Graham Kendall Academics (should) strive to submit to journals which are academically sound and scholarly. To achieve this...
The rise of preprints in earth sciences
Authors : Olivier Pourret, Daniel Enrique Ibarra The rate of science information’s spread has accelerated in recent years. In this context, it appears tha...
Reflecting on motivations: How reasons to publish affect research behaviour in astronomy
Author : Julia Heuritsch Recent research in the field of reflexive metrics, which analyses the effects of the use of performance indicators on scientific conduc...
Biomedical supervisors’ role modeling of open science practices
Authors : Tamarinde L Haven, Susan Abunijela, Nicole Hildebrand Supervision is one important way to socialize Ph.D. candidates into open and responsible researc...
Ups and downs on “r/science” — exploring the dynamics of science communication on Reddit
Authors : Jonas Kaiser, Birte Fähnrich, Laura Heintz This exploratory study analyzed user-generated science communication on Reddit from May 2007 to October 201...