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...
Étiquette : scientific communication
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...
The Social Structure of Consensus in Scientific Review
Authors : Misha Teplitskiy, Daniel Acuna, Aida Elamrani-Raoult, Konrad Kording, James Evans Personal connections between creators and evaluators of scientific w...
Gathering the Needles: Evaluating the Impact of Gold Open Access Content With Traditional Subscription Journals
Authors : Alison Boba, Jill Emery Utilizing the Project COUNTER Release 4 JR1-GOA report, two librarians explore these data in comparison to journal package sub...