Ethnic Diversity Increases Scientific Impact
Authors : Bedoor K AlShebli, Talal Rahwan, Wei Lee Woon Inspired by the numerous social and economic benefits of diversity, we analyze over 9 million papers and...
Étiquette : scientific communication
Format Aside: Applying Beall’s Criteria to Assess the Predatory Nature of both OA and Non-OA Library and Information Science Journals
Authors : Joseph D. Olivarez, Stephen Bales, Laura Sare, Wyoma vanDuinkerken Jeffrey Beall’s blog listing of potential predatory journals and publishers, as wel...
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...
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...