Reflections on the Future of Research Curation and Research Reproducibility
Authors : John Baillieul, Gerry Grenier, Gianluca Setti In the years since the launch of the World Wide Web in 1993, there have been profoundly transformative c...
Étiquette : scientific communication
Understanding the needs of scholars in a contemporary publishing environment: Survey results
Author : PWW Research Team Publishing Without Walls (PWW) is a Mellon-funded initiative at the University of Illinois led by the University Library in partnersh...
Data-Driven Transition: Joint Reporting of Subscription Expenditure and Publication Costs
Authors : Irene Barbers, Nadja Kalinna, Bernhard Mittermaier The transition process from the subscription model to the open access model in the world of scholar...
Publish and Who Should Perish: You or Science?
Author : Ádám Kun Something is wrong with science as there is an increasing amount of unreliable, manipulated and outright faked results appearing in the litera...
Assessment of potential bias in research grant peer review in Canada
Authors : Robyn Tamblyn, Nadyne Girard, Christina J. Qian, James Hanley BACKGROUND Peer review is used to determine what research is funded and published, yet l...
Is Predatory Publishing a Real Threat? Evidence from a Large Database Study
Authors : Marcelo Perlin, Takeyoshi Imasato, Denis Borenstein Using a database of potential, possible, or probable predatory scholarly open-access journals, the...
The Journal Impact Factor: A brief history, critique, and discussion of adverse effects
Authors : Vincent Lariviere, Cassidy R. Sugimoto The Journal Impact Factor (JIF) is, by far, the most discussed bibliometric indicator. Since its introduction o...