How the publish-or-perish principle divides a science: the case of economists
Author : Hendrik P. van Dalen The publish-or-perish principle has become a fact of academic life in gaining a position or being promoted. Evidence is mounting t...
Étiquette : Scholarly Publishing
Enforcing public data archiving policies in academic publishing: A study of ecology journals
Authors : Dan Sholler, Karthik Ram, Carl Boettiger, Daniel S Katz To improve the quality and efficiency of research, groups within the scientific community seek...
Scholarly publishing and journal targeting in the time of the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic: a cross-sectional survey of rheumatologists and other specialists
Authors : Latika Gupta, Armen Yuri Gasparyan, Olena Zimba, Durga Prasanna Misra The evolving research landscape in the time of the Coronavirus disease 2019 (COV...
Scrutinising what Open Access Journals Mean for Global Inequalities
Authors : Márton Demeter, Ronina Istratii In the current article, we tested our hypothesis by which high-impact journals tend to have higher Article Processing ...
Transformative agreements: Do they pave the way to open access?
Authors : Ángel Borrego, Lluís Anglada, Ernest Abadal Transformative agreements, also known as ‘offsetting’, ‘read and publish’, or ‘publish and read’ agreement...
How is open access publishing going down with early career researchers? An international, multi-disciplinary study
Authors : David Nicholas, Hamid R. Jamali, Eti Herman, Jie Xu, Chérifa Boukacem-Zeghmouri, Anthony Watkinson, Blanca Rodríguez-Bravo, Abdullah Abrizah, Marzena ...
How is open access accused of being predatory? The impact of Beall’s lists of predatory journals on academic publishing
Authors : Franciszek Krawczyk, Emanuel Kulczycki The aim of this paper is to investigate how predatory journals are characterized by authors who write about suc...