Academia should stop using beall’s lists and review their use in previous studies
Authors : Jaime A. Teixeira da Silva, Graham Kendall Academics (should) strive to submit to journals which are academically sound and scholarly. To achieve this...
Étiquette : scientific communication
The rise of preprints in earth sciences
Authors : Olivier Pourret, Daniel Enrique Ibarra The rate of science information’s spread has accelerated in recent years. In this context, it appears tha...
Reflecting on motivations: How reasons to publish affect research behaviour in astronomy
Author : Julia Heuritsch Recent research in the field of reflexive metrics, which analyses the effects of the use of performance indicators on scientific conduc...
Biomedical supervisors’ role modeling of open science practices
Authors : Tamarinde L Haven, Susan Abunijela, Nicole Hildebrand Supervision is one important way to socialize Ph.D. candidates into open and responsible researc...
Assessing the publishing priorities and preferences among STEM researchers at a large R1 institution
Authors : Ibraheem Ali, Jason Burton, M. Wynn Tranfield The cost of academic publishing has increased substantially despite the ease with which information can ...
A scoping review on the use and acceptability of preprints
Authors : Amanda Blatch-Jones, Alejandra Recio Saucedo, Beth Giddins Background Preprints are open and accessible scientific manuscript or report that has not b...
Enter the dragon: China and global academic publishing
Author : Ken Hyland One of the most dramatic changes in global publishing in the last decade has been the emergence of China. China now has more researchers tha...