Who Guards the Gates? Feminist Methods of Scholarly Publishing
Authors : Laura Wildemann Kane, Amanda Licastro, Danica Savonick As demonstrated by recent studies on bias in academic publishing, the traditional tiered system...
Étiquette : Scholarly Publishing
Fast, Furious and Dubious? MDPI and the Depth of Peer Review Reports
Authors : Abdelghani Maddi, Chérifa Boukacem-Zeghmouri Peer review is a central component of scholarly communication as it brings trust and quality control for ...
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 ...
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...
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...
Assessing the publishing priorities and preferences among STEM researchers at a large R1 institution
Authors : Ibraheem Ali, Jason Burton, M. Wynn Tranfield The cost of academic publishing has increased substantially despite the ease with which information can ...