Using Crowdsourcing to Evaluate Published Scientific Literature: Methods and Example
“Systematically evaluating scientific literature is a time consuming endeavor that requires hours of coding and rating. Here, we describe a method to dist...
Étiquette : Scholarly Publishing
Rise of the Rest: The Growing Impact of Non-Elite Journals
“In this paper, we examine the evolution of the impact of non-elite journals. We attempt to answer two questions. First, what fraction of the top-cited ar...
Data and scholarly publishing: the transforming landscape
“This article sets the scene for the special issue on research data and publishing. Research data – that material commonly accepted by the scholarly commu...
The big picture: scholarly publishing trends 2014
It is important for journal editors to keep up to date with the changes happening in the international journal environment to ensure that their own publications...
Scholarly communication, scholarly publishing and university libraries. Plus ca change ?
“The scholarly communication and research evaluation landscape is locked into historical paradigms which inadequately reflect the opportunities of the dig...
Analysis of Open Access Scholarly Journals in Chemistry
The present study has investigated the trends of open access journals appeared in the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ). It provides an insight to the op...
The ethics of scholarly publishing: exploring differences in plagiarism and duplicate publication across nations
“This study explored national differences in plagiarism and duplicate publication in retracted biomedical literature. The national affiliations of authors...