A longitudinal study of independent scholar-published open access journals
Authors : Bo-Christer Björk, Cenyu Shen, Mikael Laakso Open Access (OA) is nowadays increasingly being used as a business model for the publishing of scholarly ...
Étiquette : Scholarly Publishing
State of Data Guidance in Journal Policies: A Case Study in Oncology
Author: Deborah H. Charbonneau, Joan E. Beaudoin This article reports the results of a study examining the state of data guidance provided to authors by 50 onco...
Measuring, Rating, Supporting, and Strengthening Open Access Scholarly Publishing in Brazil
This study assesses the extent and nature of open access scholarly publishing in Brazil, one of the world’s leaders in providing universal access to its researc...
Quantifying the changing role of past publications
Our current societies increasingly rely on electronic repositories of collective knowledge. An archetype of these databases is the Web of Science (WoS) that sto...
Open Access – the better access? Academic publishing and its politics
Open Access to scholarly literature seems to dominate current discussions in the academic publishing, research funding and science policy arenas. Several intern...
Tackling complexity in an interdisciplinary scholarly network: Requirements for semantic publishing
Scholarly communication is complex. The clarification of concepts like “academic publication”, “document”, “semantics” and “ontology” facilitates tracking the l...
Stability and Longevity in the Publication Careers of U.S. Doctorate Recipients
Since the 1950s, the number of doctorate recipients has risen dramatically in the United States. In this paper, we investigate whether the longevity of doctorat...