Knowledge Infrastructures in Science: Data, Diversity, and Digital Libraries
Digital libraries can be deployed at many points throughout the life cycles of scientific research projects from their inception through data collection, analys...
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Review times in peer review: quantitative analysis of editorial workflows
We examine selected aspects of peer review and suggest possible improvements. To this end, we analyse a dataset containing information about 300 papers submitte...
Content Volatility of Scientific Topics in Wikipedia: A Cautionary Tale
Wikipedia has quickly become one of the most frequently accessed encyclopedic references, despite the ease with which content can be changed and the potential f...
Open Access Indicators and Scholarly Communications in Latin America
This book is the result of a joint research and development project supported by UNESCO and undertaken in 2013 by UNESCO in partnership with the Public Knowledg...
Retraction policies of top scientific journals ranked by impact factor
Objective This study gathered information about the retraction policies of the top 200 scientific journals, ranked by impact factor. Methods Editors of the top ...
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The academic community is under great pressure to publish. This pressure is compounded by high rejection rates at many journals. A more recent trend is for some...
Sizing the Problem of Improving Discovery and Access to NIH-Funded Data: A Preliminary Study
Objective This study informs efforts to improve the discoverability of and access to biomedical datasets by providing a preliminary estimate of the number and t...