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...
Étiquette : Scholarly Publishing
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....
Self-help for learned journals: Scientific societies and the commerce of publishing in the 1950s
Author : Aileen Fyfe In the decades after the Second World War, learned society publishers struggled to cope with the expanding output of scientific research an...
Ants-Review: A Privacy-Oriented Protocol for Incentivized Open Peer Reviews on Ethereum
Authors : Bianca Trovò, Nazzareno Massari Peer review is a necessary and essential quality control step for scientific publications but lacks proper incentives...