Exposing the predators. Methods to stop predatory journals
« The internet is greatly improving the impact of scholarly journals, but also poses new threats to their quality. Publishers have arisen that abuse the Gold Op...
Étiquette : scholarly journals
Rise of the Rest: The Growing Impact of Non-Elite Journals
« In this paper, we examine the evolution of the impact of non-elite journals. We attempt to answer two questions. First, what fraction of the top-cited article...
The impact factors of open access and subscription journals across fields
« We have compared the 2-year and 5-year impact factors (IFs), normalized impact factors (NIFs) and rank normalized impact factors (RNIFs) of open access (OA) a...
Building a Bridge Between Journal Articles and Research Data: The PKP-Dataverse Integration Project
« A growing number of funding agencies and international scholarly organizations are requesting that research data be made more openly available to help validat...
Cross-Linking Between Journal Publications and Data Repositories: A Selection of Examples
« This article provides a selection of examples of the many ways that a link can be made between a journal article (whether in a data journal or otherwise) and ...
Quality of author guidelines of journals in the biomedical and physical sciences
« To assess quantitatively the completeness and clarity of author guidelines of international English-language journals in the biomedical and physical sciences,...
Interdisciplinarity at the Journal and Specialty Level: The changing knowledge bases of the journal Cognitive Science
Using the referencing patterns in articles in Cognitive Science over three decades, we analyze the knowledge base of this literature in terms of its changing di...