Authors : Vincent Lariviere, Cassidy R. Sugimoto The Journal Impact Factor (JIF) is, by far, the most discussed bibliometric indicator. Since its introduction o...
Author : Qing Ke Traditionally, the number of citations that a scholarly paper receives from other papers is used as the proxy of its scientific impact. Yet cit...
Authors : Clayton T. Lamb, Sophie L. Gilbert, Adam T. Ford Science communication is seen as critical for the disciplines of ecology and conservation, where res...
Author : Didier Torny The more journal peer review (JPR) became a scientific topic, the more it has been the subject of criticisms and controversies. Repeated f...
Authors : Alexander Kohls, Salvatore Mele Gigantic particle accelerators, incredibly complex detectors, an antimatter factory and the discovery of the Higgs bos...
Authors : Megan Taylor, Kathrine S. H. Jensen In this paper we explore how the development of The University of Huddersfield Press, a publisher of open access s...
Authors : April Hathcock, Guy Geltner Open scholarly communications are being suffocated by for-profit and large-scale academic publishers on the one hand and u...