The false academy: predatory publishing in science and bioethics
Authors : Stefan Eriksson, Gert Helgesson This paper describes and discusses the phenomenon ‘predatory publishing’, in relation to both academic journals and bo...
Étiquette : Peer Review
Global Data Quality Assessment and the Situated Nature of “Best” Research Practices in Biology
Author : Sabina Leonelli This paper reflects on the relation between international debates around data quality assessment and the diversity characterising resea...
Decentralized creation of academic documents using a Network Attached Storage (NAS) server
Authors : Johannes Wilm, Afshin Sadeghi, Christoph Lange, Philipp Mayr Scholarly document creation continues to face various obstacles. Scholarly text productio...
Peer reviewing: a private affair between the individual researcher and the publishing houses, or a responsibility of the university?
Authors : Leif Longva, Eirik Reierth, Lars Moksness, Bård Smedsrød Peer reviewing is mandatory for scientific journals as quality control of submitted manuscrip...
TrueReview: A Platform for Post-Publication Peer Review
Authors : Luca de Alfaro, Marco Faella In post-publication peer review, scientific contributions are first published in open-access forums, such as arXiv or oth...
What is open peer review? A systematic review
Author : Tony Ross-Hellauer Background “Open peer review” (OPR), despite being a major pillar of Open Science, has neither a standardized definition nor an agre...
What Constitutes Peer Review of Data: A survey of published peer review guidelines
Author : Todd A Carpenter Since a number of journals specifically focus on the review and publication of data sets, reviewing their policies seems an appropriat...