Fee Waivers for Open Access Journals
Open access journals which charge article processing charges (APCs) sometimes offer fee waivers to authors who cannot afford to pay them. This article measures ...
Étiquette : scientific communication
Replication, Communication, and the Population Dynamics of Scientific Discovery
Many published research results are false (Ioannidis, 2005), and controversy continues over the roles of replication and publication policy in improving the rel...
Dataverse 4.0: Defining Data Publishing
The research community needs reliable, standard ways to make the data produced by scientific research available to the community, while getting credit as data ...
Open Science in Poland 2014 : A Diagnosis
The process of producing and distributing scientific knowledge has been undergoing significant changes recently, termed collectively as “opening” of science. Th...
Too much of a good thing? An observational study of prolific authors
Introduction Researchers’ productivity is usually measured in terms of their publication output. A minimum number of publications is required for some medical q...
A New Ranking Scheme for the Institutional Scientific Performance
We propose a new performance indicator to evaluate the productivity of research institutions by their disseminated scientific papers. The new quality measure in...
Open Access Indicators and Scholarly Communications in Latin America
This book is the result of a joint research and development project supported by UNESCO and undertaken in 2013 by UNESCO in partnership with the Public Knowledg...