Social justice driving open access publishing: an African perspective
Authors : Reggie Raju, Auliya Badrudeen The OA movement is generally considered to have been founded for the truly philanthropic purpose of promoting equity and...
Étiquette : scientific communication
Academic vs. biological age in research on academic careers: a large-scale study with implications for scientifically developing systems
Authors : Marek Kwiek, Wojciech Roszka Biological age is an important sociodemographic factor in studies on academic careers (research productivity, scholarly i...
Advancing Self-Evaluative and Self-Regulatory Mechanisms of Scholarly Journals: Editors’ Perspectives on What Needs to Be Improved in the Editorial Process
Author : Katarina Krapež Meticulous self-evaluative practices in the offices of academic periodicals can be helpful in reducing widespread uncertainty about the...
Peer reviewers equally critique theory, method, and writing, with limited effect on the final content of accepted manuscripts
Author : Dimity Stephen The primary aims of peer review are to detect flaws and deficiencies in the design and interpretation of studies, and ensure the clarity...
Implementing the Declaration on Research Assessment: a publisher case study
Authors : Victoria Gardner, Mark Robinson, Elisabetta O’Connell There has been much debate around the role of metrics in scholarly communication, with particula...
Persistent Identification for Conferences
Authors : Julian Franken, Aliaksandr Birukou, Kai Eckert, Wolfgang Fahl, Christian Hauschke, Christoph Lange Persistent identification of entities plays a major...
International disparities in open access practices in the Earth Sciences
Authors : Olivier Pourret, David William Hedding, Daniel Enrique Ibarra, Dasapta Erwin Irawan, Haiyan Liu, Jonathan Peter Tennant Background Open access (OA) im...