A genealogy of open access: negotiations between openness and access to research
Author : Samuel A. Moore Open access (OA) is a contested term with a complicated history and a variety of understandings. This rich history is routinely ignored...
Étiquette : scientific communication
The rise of the middle author: Investigating collaboration and division of labor in biomedical research using partial alphabetical authorship
Authors : Philippe Mongeon, Elise Smith, Bruno Joyal, Vincent Larivière Contemporary biomedical research is performed by increasingly large teams. Consequently,...
Effectiveness of Anonymization in Double-Blind Review
Authors : Claire Le Goues, Yuriy Brun, Sven Apel, Emery Berger, Sarfraz Khurshid, Yannis Smaragdakis Double-blind review relies on the authors’ ability an...
Standardising and harmonising research data policy in scholarly publishing
Authors : Iain Hrynaszkiewicz, Aliaksandr Birukou, Mathias Astell, Sowmya Swaminathan, Amye Kenall, Varsha Khodiyar To address the complexities researchers face...
What do computer scientists tweet? Analyzing the link-sharing practice on Twitter
Authors : Marco Schmitt, Robert Jäschke Twitter communication has permeated every sphere of society. To highlight and share small pieces of information with pos...
Academics’ behaviors and attitudes towards open access publishing in scholarly journals
Authors : Jennifer Rowley, Frances Johnson, Laura Sbaffi, Will Frass, Elaine Devine While there is significant progress with policy and a lively debate regardin...
How quickly do publications get read? The evolution of Mendeley reader counts for new articles
Authors : Nabeil Maflahi, Mike Thelwall Within science, citation counts are widely used to estimate research impact but publication delays mean that they are no...