Library funding for open access at KU Leuven
Authors : Demmy Verbeke, Laura Mesotten As main buyers of scholarly literature, research libraries have always provided essential economic support for sustainin...
Étiquette : Scholarly Publishing
The Uptake and Impact of a Label for Peer-Reviewed Books
Authors : Eline Vandewalle, Raf Guns, Tim C. E. Engels This article presents an analysis of the uptake of the GPRC label (Guaranteed Peer Reviewed Content label...
How do scientific papers with different levels of journals spread online? Exploring the temporal dynamics in the diffusion processes
Authors : Renmeng Cao, Xiaoke Xu, Yunxue Cui, Zhizhao Fang, Xianwen Wang Social media has become an important channel for publicizing academic research, which p...
Attitudes toward open peer review among stakeholders of a scholar-led journal in Brazil
Authors : Leonardo Ferreira Fontenelle, Thiago Dias Sarti Scholarly journals should consider the attitudes of their communities before adopting any of the seven...
Journals in Beall’s list perform as a group less well than other open access journals indexed in Scopus but reveal large differences among publishers
Authors : Henk F. Moed, Carmen Lopez-Illescas, Vicente P. Guerrero-Bote, Felix de Moya-Anegon The list of potential, possible or probable predatory scholarly op...
The gendered nature of authorship
Authors : Chaoqun Ni, Elise Smith, Haimiao Yuan, Vincent Larivière, Cassidy R. Sugimoto Authorship is the primary form of symbolic capital in science. Despite t...
Journal citation reports and the definition of a predatory journal: The case of the Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI)
Author : M. Ángeles Oviedo-García The extent to which predatory journals can harm scientific practice increases as the numbers of such journals expand, in so fa...