Open Access Publishing, academic research and scholarly communication
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore the difference between Open Access and accessibility, to argue that accessibility is the most crucial feature, a...
Étiquette : scientific communication
Risk of Bias in Reports of In Vivo Research: A Focus for Improvement
The reliability of experimental findings depends on the rigour of experimental design. Here we show limited reporting of measures to reduce the risk of bias in ...
The role of arXiv, RePEc, SSRN and PMC in formal scholarly communication
Purposes The four major Subject Repositories (SRs), arXiv, Research Papers in Economics (RePEc), Social Science Research Network (SSRN) and PubMed Central (PMC...
Regional and Global Science: Latin American and Caribbean publications in the SciELO Citation Index and the Web of Science
We compare the visibility and performance of Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) publications in the Core collection indexes included in the Web of Science (WoS)...
Retrospective analysis of the quality of reports by author-suggested and non-author-suggested reviewers in journals operating on open or single-blind peer review models
Objectives To assess whether reports from reviewers recommended by authors show a bias in quality and recommendation for editorial decision, compared with revie...
Publier : à quel prix ? Étude sur la structuration des coûts de publication pour les revues françaises en SHS
La publication d’articles dans des revues scientifiques est un enjeu fort pour les institutions de recherche françaises car il s’agit bien d’un vecteur essentie...
‘Predatory’ open access: a longitudinal study of article volumes and market characteristics
Background A negative consequence of the rapid growth of scholarly open access publishing funded by article processing charges is the emergence of publishers an...