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 ...
Étiquette : Scholarly Publishing
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 ...
Enter the dragon: China and global academic publishing
Author : Ken Hyland One of the most dramatic changes in global publishing in the last decade has been the emergence of China. China now has more researchers tha...
Identification and classification of evaluation indicators for scientific and technical publications and related factors
Authors : Hassan Mahmoudi Topkanlo, Mehrdad CheshmehSohrabi Introduction Given the importance of the issue of the widespread impact of scientific and technical ...