Characteristics of ‘mega’ peer-reviewers
Authors : Danielle B. Rice, Ba’ Pham, Justin Presseau, Andrea C. Tricco, David Moher Background The demand for peer reviewers is often perceived as disproportio...
Étiquette : Scholarly Publishing
The need for accelerated change in diversity, equity and inclusion in publishing and learned societies
Author : Jonathan Roscoe Diversity, equity and inclusion (DE&I) is a key priority for many organizations and institutions, including learned societies. With...
The Rise of Platinum Open Access Journals with Both Impact Factors and Zero Article Processing Charges
Author : Joshua M. Pearce It appears that open access (OA) academic publishing is better for science because it provides frictionless access to make significant...
Surveillance Publishing
Author : Jeff Pooley This essay develops the idea of surveillance publishing, with special attention to the example of Elsevier. A scholarly publisher can be de...
Ask the Editors: Assessing the Publishing Needs of Faculty Editors
Authors : Matthew E. Hunter, Liz Dunne, Camille Thomas, Laura Miller, Devin Soper Introduction This article reports results from a survey of faculty members wit...
Academic vs. biological age in research on academic careers: a large-scale study with implications for scientifically developing systems
Authors : Marek Kwiek, Wojciech Roszka Biological age is an important sociodemographic factor in studies on academic careers (research productivity, scholarly i...
International disparities in open access practices in the Earth Sciences
Authors : Olivier Pourret, David William Hedding, Daniel Enrique Ibarra, Dasapta Erwin Irawan, Haiyan Liu, Jonathan Peter Tennant Background Open access (OA) im...