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...
Étiquette : Scholarly Publishing
« 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 ...
How to avoid borrowed plumes in academia
Authors : Margit Osterloh, Bruno S. Frey Publications in top journals today have a powerful influence on academic careers although there is much criticism of us...
Revisiting ‘the 1990s debutante’: scholar-led publishing and the pre-history of the open access movement
Author : Samuel Moore The movement for open access publishing is often said to have its roots in the scientific disciplines, having been popularised by scientif...
Ten Hot Topics around Scholarly Publishing
Authors : Jonathan P. Tennant, Harry Crane, Tom Crick, Jacinto Davila, Asura Enkhbayar, Johanna Havemann, Bianca Kramer, Ryan Martin, Paola Masuzzo, Andy Nobes...