Sci-Hub, a challenge for academic and research libraries
Authors : Llarina González-Solar, Viviana Fernández-Marcial Sci-Hub emerged into the field of scientific communication in 2011 as a platform for free access to ...
Étiquette : scientific communication
Can Google Scholar and Mendeley help to assess the scholarly impacts of dissertations?
Authors : Kayvan Kousha, Mike Thelwall Dissertations can be the single most important scholarly outputs of junior researchers. Whilst sets of journal articles a...
Who Is (Likely) Peer-Reviewing Your Papers? A Partial Insight into the World’s Top Reviewers
Authors : Francesco Pomponi, Bernardino D’Amico, Tom Rye Scientific publishing is experiencing unprecedented growth in terms of outputs across all fields. Inevi...
Guidelines for open peer review implementation
Authors : Tony Ross-Hellauer, Edit Görögh Open peer review (OPR) is moving into the mainstream, but it is often poorly understood and surveys of researcher atti...
Production and uptake of Open Access publications involving the private sector: the case of big pharma
Authors : Afredo Yegros-Yegros, Thed van Leeuwen Over the last years Open Access has been ranked very high on science policy agenda’s both internationally as we...
Is Scopus Polluting Its Own Database by Indexing Junk articles? A Case Study of Five Journals
Author : Jackie Earle Haley The aim of this short research note is to demonstrate that Scopus is polluting its own databases, unintentionally or otherwise, by i...
Intellectual contributions meriting authorship: Survey results from the top cited authors across all science categories
Authors : Gregory S. Patience, Federico Galli, Paul A. Patience, Daria C. Boffito Authorship is the currency of an academic career for which the number of paper...