Requiem for impact factors and high publication charges
Authors : Chris R Triggle, Ross MacDonald, David J. Triggle, Donald Grierson Journal impact factors, publication charges and assessment of quality and accuracy ...
Étiquette : Scholarly Publishing
Open Access Models, Pirate Libraries and Advocacy Repertoires: Policy Options for Academics to Construct and Govern Knowledge Commons
Author : Melanie Dulong de Rosnay In this article, I propose exploring open access publishing through the lenses of Knowledge Commons. Instead of focusing on us...
What happens when a journal converts to Open Access? A bibliometric analysis
Authors : Fakhri Momeni, Philipp Mayr, Nicholas Fraser, Isabella Peters In recent years, increased stakeholder pressure to transition research to Open Access ha...
What is the benefit from publishing a working paper in a journal in terms of citations? Evidence from economics
Authors : Klaus Wohlraben, Constantin Bürgi Many papers in economics that are published in peer reviewed journals are initially released in widely circulated wo...
Inferring the causal effect of journals on citations
Author : Vincent A Traag Articles in high-impact journals are, on average, more frequently cited. But are they cited more often because those articles are someh...
Working with publication technology to make open access journals sustainable
Authors : Marcel Wrzesinski, Patrick Urs Riechert, Frédéric Dubois, Christian Katzenbach Over the last 25 years, scholars around the world have used electronic ...
A Billion Dollar Donation: The Cost, and Inefficiency of, Researchers’ Time Spent on Peer Review
Authors : Balazs Aczel, Barnabas Szaszi, Alex Holcombe Background The amount and value of researchers’ peer review work is critical for academia and publishing....