Availability of research articles for the public during pandemic – a case study
Author : Augustine Joshua Devasahayam The coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) disease has affected millions of lives, forcing most of us to stay at home and work. Howev...
Étiquette : scientific communication
Open Access and Altmetrics in the pandemic age: Forescast analysis on COVID-19 literature
Authors : Daniel Torres-Salinas, Nicolas Robinson-Garcia, Pedro A. Castillo-Valdivieso We present an analysis on the uptake of open access on COVID-19 related l...
Use of the journal impact factor for assessing individual articles need not be statistically wrong
Authors : Ludo Waltman, Vincent A. Traag Most scientometricians reject the use of the journal impact factor for assessing individual articles and their authors....
Towards inclusive scholarly publishing: developments in the university press community
Authors: Niccole Leilanionapae‘aina Coggins, Gisela Concepción Fosado, Christie Henry, Gita Manaktala This article provides an overview of the ways in which the...
From Open Access to Open Science: The Path From Scientific Reality to Open Scientific Communication
Authors : Christian Heise, Joshua M. Pearce Although opening up of research is considered an appropriate and trend-setting model for future scientific communica...
How common are explicit research questions in journal articles?
Authors : Mike Thelwall, Amalia Mas-Bleda Although explicitly labeled research questions seem to be central to some fields, others do not need them. This may co...
Hostage authorship and the problem of dirty hands
Authors : William Bülow, Gert Helgesson This article discusses gift authorship, the practice where co-authorship is awarded to a person who has not contributed ...