Assessing the size of the affordability problem in scholarly publishing
Authors : Alexander Grossmann, Björn Brembs For many decades, the hyperinflation of subscription prices for scholarly journals have concerned scholarly institu...
Étiquette : Scholarly Publishing
Open access policies of leading medical journals: a cross-sectional study
Authors : Tim S Ellison, Laura Schmidt, Amy Williams, Christopher C Winchester Objectives Academical and not-for-profit research funders are increasingly requir...
Please, no more scientific journals! The strategy of the scientific publication system
Author : Miguel A. Fortuna In the same way ecosystems tend to increase maturity by decreasing the flow of energy per unit biomass, we should move towards a more...
The F3-index. Valuing reviewers for scholarly journals
Authors : Federico Bianchi, Francisco Grimaldo, Flaminio Squazzoni This paper presents an index that measures reviewer contribution to editorial processes of sc...
« Blacklists » and « whitelists » to tackle predatory publishing : A cross-sectional comparison and thematic analysis
Authors : Michaela Strinzel, Anna Severin, Katrin Milzow, Matthias Egger Background Despite growing awareness of predatory publishing and research on its marke...
Ten years of AoB PLANTS the open access journal for plant scientists: inception and progress since 2009
Author : Michael B Jackson AoB PLANTS is a not-for-profit, open access, plant science journal and one of three peer-reviewed journals owned and managed by the A...
Over-optimization of academic publishing metrics: observing Goodhart’s Law in action
Authors : Michael Fire, Carlos Guestrin Background The academic publishing world is changing significantly, with ever-growing numbers of publications each year ...