How to counter undeserving authorship
Authors: Stefan Eriksson, Tove Godskesen, Lars Andersson, Gert Helgesson The average number of authors listed on contributions to scientific journals has increa...
Étiquette : scientific communication
The Visibility of Open Access Monographs in a European Context: A Report Prepared by Knowledge Unlatched Research
Authors : Lucy Montgomery, Cameron Neylon, Alkim Ozaygen, Frances Pinter, Neil Saunders This report explores the extent to which Open Access (OA) specialist sch...
Publishing science without results and recycling research
Author : Eric Lichtfouse Most scientists focus too much on publishing original articles. In doing so, scientists are restricting their writing skills to this fo...
Gold Open Access Publishing in Mega-Journals: Developing Countries Pay the Price of Western Premium Academic Output
Authors : Jacintha Ellers, Thomas W. Crowther, Jeffrey A. Harvey Open access publishing (OAP) makes research output freely available, and several national gover...
Prestigious Science Journals Struggle to Reach Even Average Reliability
Author : Björn Brembs In which journal a scientist publishes is considered one of the most crucial factors determining their career. The underlying common assum...
Evolution of the scholarly mega-journal, 2006–2017
Author : Bo-Christer Björk Mega-journals are a new kind of scholarly journal made possible by electronic publishing. They are open access (OA) and funded by ch...
Can your paper evade the editors axe? Towards an AI assisted peer review system
Authors : Tirthankar Ghosal, Rajeev Verma, Asif Ekbal, Sriparna Saha, Pushpak Bhattacharyya, Srinivasa Satya Sameer Kumar Chivukula, Georgios Tsatsaronis, Pasca...