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Using automated analysis of the bibliography to detect potential research integrity issues Learned Publishing (IF 2.711) Pub Date : 2024-03-07 Robin Dunford, Bruce Rosenblum, Sylvia Izzo Hunter
Key points Efforts to assess research integrity in scholarly publications tend to focus on the front matter (e.g., fake authors) and the article body (e.g., data falsification, image manipulation, plagiarism). Automated analysis of the bibliography may surface fingerprints pointing to research integrity issues. Tools exist that can be used at all workflow stages, from manuscript submission through
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Macao's academic book publishing industry: A SWOT and PEST analysis Learned Publishing (IF 2.711) Pub Date : 2024-02-27 Li Jiagui, Johnny F. I. Lam
Macao's academic book publishing industry has a rich history and has grown significantly over the past two decades. This study employs a semi‐structured in‐depth interview to evaluate the current and prospective state of Macao's academic book publishing industry. The SWOT (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats) analysis and the PEST (Political, Economic, Social, and Technological) analysis
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Beyond Beall's list: The need for contemporary evaluation tools in predatory publishing research Learned Publishing (IF 2.711) Pub Date : 2024-02-27 Karukh K. Mohammed, Jihad Ibrahim Hama, Fahmi H. Kakamad
Key points Beall's list was an instrumental resource in its prime, however its cessation of updates since 2017 makes its continued use a potential concern. The landscape of predatory publishing has witnessed profound changes over recent years. In the context of up‐to‐date evaluations, many researchers and institutions are turning towards Kscien's list.
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Scaling up open access publishing through transformative agreements: Results from 2019 to 2022 Learned Publishing (IF 2.711) Pub Date : 2024-02-22 Ciaran Hoogendoorn, Gaynor Redvers‐Mutton
Key Points The Biochemical Society's transformative Read & Publish (R&P) agreements follow an all‐inclusive and unlimited model (developed in collaboration with other society publishers) that cover all titles, both hybrid and fully open access (OA), and does not place caps on article numbers. This case study shows that these R&P agreements have significantly boosted OA uptake in the United Kingdom
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The publication facts label: A public and professional guide for research articles Learned Publishing (IF 2.711) Pub Date : 2024-02-21 John Willinsky, Daniel Pimentel
Key points The expansion of open access entails a responsibility for supporting this public access with a guide to why, in an ‘Age of Misinformation’, research may be trustworthy. Such a guide can also provide a check on predatory journals, a fear of which may be unduly limiting researchers tapping into the expanding global scale of research activity. Journal publishing platforms offer opportunities
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Lessons learned from ORCID DE—A project-driven initiative to promote author identification in Germany Learned Publishing (IF 2.711) Pub Date : 2024-02-13 Heinz Pampel, Antonia C. Schrader, Paul Vierkant, Britta Dreyer, Stephanie Glagla-Dietz, Jochen Schirrwagen, Friedrich Summann
INTRODUCTION Research institutes, libraries, and publishers have grappled with the issue of unambiguously addressing researchers and the associated networks of scholars and scholarly contributions for numerous years. When the initial considerations for the development of ORCID (Open Researcher and Contributor iD) became known, we, at the Deutsche Initiative für Netzwerkinformation (DINI; translated:
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Is AI giving us more than we can or even should handle? Learned Publishing (IF 2.711) Pub Date : 2024-01-19 Pascal Hetzscholdt
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The robot uprising is here: Is scholarly publishing ready? Learned Publishing (IF 2.711) Pub Date : 2024-01-17 Sami Benchekroun
CONFLICT OF INTEREST STATEMENT Author is a non-executive director on the board of ALPSP.
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Adapting peer review for the future: Digital disruptions and trust in peer review Learned Publishing (IF 2.711) Pub Date : 2024-01-15 Harini Calamur, Roohi Ghosh
CONFLICT OF INTEREST STATEMENT Harini and Roohi, the authors of this opinion piece are both employees of CACTUS, the organization that has released the survey report that is discussed in this article. PaperPal, which is mentioned as one of the AI tools for language, is also a CACTUS product.
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Editorial actions taken to reduce publishing references from predatory sources: A case study Learned Publishing (IF 2.711) Pub Date : 2024-01-12 Joan E. Dodgson, Ethan T. Bamberger, Zelalem T. Haile, Mary Kate J. Kornegay
CONFLICT OF INTEREST STATEMENT The authors declare no conflict of interest.
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Breaking free from academic scams: Five key reflections on the cloned journal conundrum Learned Publishing (IF 2.711) Pub Date : 2023-12-27 Rajadurai Vijay Solomon
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How do editors use editorials to lead their journals? Insights from the field of human resource management Learned Publishing (IF 2.711) Pub Date : 2023-12-26 Maria S. Plakhotnik
Editorials have earned a special place among many practices, tools, and policies available to editors for journal advancement. Despite the vital and diverse roles of editorials in academic journals, they have rarely been systematically analysed for common characteristics or patterns. In this study, I approached editorials as a leadership practice of journal editors. Therefore, the purpose of this study
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Academic misconduct, fake authorship letters, cyber fraud: Evidence from the International Political Science Review Learned Publishing (IF 2.711) Pub Date : 2023-12-20 Daniel Stockemer, Theresa Reidy
INTRODUCTION At a global level, the publishing industry has been in constant flux over the past decade. Two developments are especially noteworthy: open access and artificial intelligence (AI). Most importantly, the industry has moved toward open access publishing with new open access journals emerging and established journals such as the Canadian Journal of Political Science or the European Political
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Where are the carrots? A proposal to start crediting peer reviewers for their contribution to science Learned Publishing (IF 2.711) Pub Date : 2023-12-11 Aron Laxdal, Tommy Haugen
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Alternatives to English only in scholarly publishing: Emerging trends of language policies among non-Anglophone journals? Learned Publishing (IF 2.711) Pub Date : 2023-12-08 Xiangdong Li
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Establishing an early indicator for data sharing and reuse Learned Publishing (IF 2.711) Pub Date : 2023-11-14 Agata Piękniewska, Laurel L. Haak, Darla Henderson, Katherine McNeill, Anita Bandrowski, Yvette Seger
Funders, publishers, scholarly societies, universities, and other stakeholders need to be able to track the impact of programs and policies designed to advance data sharing and reuse. With the launch of the NIH data management and sharing policy in 2023, establishing a pre-policy baseline of sharing and reuse activity is critical for the biological and biomedical community. Toward this goal, we tested
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Exploring the relationship between traditional bibliometrics and Altmetric scores in the primary care literature Learned Publishing (IF 2.711) Pub Date : 2023-10-18 Alexander Burrell, Daniel Butler, Obioha C. Ukoumunne, Hajira Dambha-Miller
There is some evidence that Altmetric scores correlate with citations in medical research, but this is not consistent across different specialties. No previous studies have examined the association between Altmetric score and citations amongst primary care research journals. The aim of this study was therefore to describe this association. We identified the ten most frequently cited articles published
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Now you have to pay! A deeper look at publishing practices of predatory journals Learned Publishing (IF 2.711) Pub Date : 2023-09-29 Mark R. Freiermuth
In this study, by using Beall's (Scholarly open-access, 2014; Beall's list of predatory journals and publishers, 2018) predatory journal lists as well as direct e-mail solicitations from journals, we intentionally submitted a poorly written manuscript to 58 open-access journals using counterfeit names and affiliations. Although there have been several studies examining the practices of questionable
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Can ChatGPT be an author? A study of artificial intelligence authorship policies in top academic journals Learned Publishing (IF 2.711) Pub Date : 2023-09-25 Brady D. Lund, K.T. Naheem
Academic publishers have quickly responded to the impact of artificial intelligence (AI) tools on authorship and academic integrity. However, there remains a lack of understanding about AI authorship policies and the attitude of academic journals towards these tools. This study aims to address this gap by examining the AI authorship policies of 300 top academic journals during the period of late-spring
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Risks of abuse of large language models, like ChatGPT, in scientific publishing: Authorship, predatory publishing, and paper mills Learned Publishing (IF 2.711) Pub Date : 2023-09-08 Graham Kendall, Jaime A. Teixeira da Silva
CONFLICT OF INTEREST STATEMENT The authors declare no conflicts of interest.
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How do journals publishing palliative and end-of-life care research report ethical approval and informed consent? Learned Publishing (IF 2.711) Pub Date : 2023-09-08 Tove Godskesen, Knut Jørgen Vie, William Bülow, Bodil Holmberg, Gert Helgesson, Stefan Eriksson
This study explores how papers published in international journals in palliative and end-of-life care report ethical approval and informed consent. A literature search following PRISMA guidelines was conducted in PubMed, the Web of Science Core Collection, Scopus, the ProQuest Social Science Premium Collection, PsycINFO, and the Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature (CINAHL). A total
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The state of scientific PDF accessibility in repositories: A survey in Switzerland Learned Publishing (IF 2.711) Pub Date : 2023-09-07 Alireza Darvishy, Rolf Sethe, Ines Engler, Oriane Pierrès, Juliet Manning
This survey analyzes the quality of the portable document format (PDF) documents in online repositories in Switzerland, examining their accessibility for people with visual impairments. Two minimal accessibility features were analysed: the PDFs had to have tags and a hierarchical heading structure. The survey also includes interviews with the managers or heads of multiple Swiss universities' repositories
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Transforming scholarly communications: The part played by the pandemic and the contribution of early career researchers Learned Publishing (IF 2.711) Pub Date : 2023-09-05 David Nicholas, Eti Herman, Cherifa Boukacem-Zeghmouri, Blanca Rodríguez-Bravo, Anthony Watkinson, Abdullah Abrizah, Marzena Świgoń, Jie Xu, David Sims, Galina Serbina, David Clark, Hamid. R. Jamali, Carol Tenopir, Suzie Allard
Investigates whether junior researchers believe that the scholarly communication system is changing in a significant way, whether they have contributed to the changes they envisaged, whether the pandemic has fast-forwarded change and what they thought a transformed system might look like. The data are drawn from the Harbingers-2 project, which investigated the impact of the pandemic on the scholarly
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Impact of publisher's commercial or non-profit orientation on editorial practices: Moving towards a more strategic approach to supporting editorial staff Learned Publishing (IF 2.711) Pub Date : 2023-09-05 Katarina Krapež
This study was guided by previous research highlighting the significance of journal publishers' commercial or non-profit orientations in shaping academic editors' perspectives regarding the necessity of enhancing editorial and business practices. There is limited understanding of how the editor–publisher relationship varies based on publishers' commercial orientation. This study revealed five key factors
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Can the principle of the ‘right to be forgotten’ be applied to academic publishing? Probe from the perspective of personal rights, archival science, open science and post-publication peer review Learned Publishing (IF 2.711) Pub Date : 2023-09-05 Jaime A. Teixeira da Silva, Serhii Nazarovets
In this paper, we reflect on how the principle of the ‘right to be forgotten’ (RTBF), specifically the right to erasure as enshrined in Article 17 (and to some extent Art. 19 and Art. 21) of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR; Regulation (EU) 2016/679), or the right to delete undesirable, unflattering or reputation-damaging archived records of oneself from search engines or databases, might
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Publication and collaboration anomalies in academic papers originating from a paper mill: Evidence from a Russia-based paper mill Learned Publishing (IF 2.711) Pub Date : 2023-09-01 Anna Abalkina
This study attempts to detect papers originating from the Russia-based paper mill ‘International Publisher’ LLC. A total of 1,063 offers to purchase co-authorship on a fraudulent papers published from 2019 to mid-2022 on the 123mi.ru website were analysed. This study identifies at least 451 papers that are potentially linked to the paper mill, including one preprint, a duplication paper and 16 republications
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The phantom of the author: predatory publisher OMICS is ghost-writing its own articles Learned Publishing (IF 2.711) Pub Date : 2023-08-17 Mike Downes
CONFLICT OF INTEREST STATEMENT The author declares no conflict of interest.
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Making journals more international: Language subject differences and impact performance Learned Publishing (IF 2.711) Pub Date : 2023-08-17 Jing Li, Xue Yang, Xiaoli Lu, Dengsheng Wu
This study created a comprehensive Country Diversity Score (CDS) index to measure the degree of journal internationality from a diversity perspective, based on publishing authors' affiliation countries. It calculates CDS values and analyses their distribution across countries, publication languages, disciplines, subjects, and journal impact factor (JIF) quartiles for 11,481 journals, and addresses
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A multidimensional journal evaluation framework based on the Pareto-dominated set measured by the Manhattan distance Learned Publishing (IF 2.711) Pub Date : 2023-08-12 Xinxin Xu, Ziqiang Zeng, Yurui Chang
Journal evaluation is a multifaceted issue, and multidimensional information cannot be conflated into one metric due to the inability of a single indicator to reflect the quality of a journal. The goal of this paper is to develop a multidimensional journal evaluation framework based on the Pareto-dominated set through integrating information measured by the Manhattan distance related to article performance
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Systematic examination of post- and pre-citation of Indian-authored retracted papers Learned Publishing (IF 2.711) Pub Date : 2023-08-12 Ishfaq Ahmad Palla, Mangkhollen Singson, S. Thiyagarajan
Retracted articles by Indian scholars have received significant attention in recent times. However, no comprehensive study has been conducted to analyse the citations of retracted papers authored by Indian researchers. This study aimed to assess the citations to retracted works published between 2001 and 2020 pre- and post-retraction. The study found that there was an increase in retractions over time
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The rise of a mega-journal in public health publishing Learned Publishing (IF 2.711) Pub Date : 2023-08-10 Dennis M. Gorman
CONFLICT OF INTEREST STATEMENT The authors declare no conflict of interest.
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Artificial intelligence to support publishing and peer review: A summary and review Learned Publishing (IF 2.711) Pub Date : 2023-08-08 Kayvan Kousha, Mike Thelwall
Technology is being developed to support the peer review processes of journals, conferences, funders, universities, and national research evaluations. This literature and software summary discusses the partial or complete automation of several publishing-related tasks: suggesting appropriate journals for an article, providing quality control for submitted papers, finding suitable reviewers for submitted
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Editorial time management: Peer review dates and other key dates of Spanish Communication journals Learned Publishing (IF 2.711) Pub Date : 2023-08-02 Jesús Segarra-Saavedra, Tatiana Hidalgo-Marí, Victoria Tur-Viñes
The main objective of this study was to identify editorial practices related to time management in Spanish Communication journals and determine whether their time management is homogeneous, as well as to evaluate which journals are more agile, discover the differences between general and special issues, and identify practices that could streamline the publication process. To this end, we worked with
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Empirical analysis of factors influencing delay in article acceptance in accounting journals Learned Publishing (IF 2.711) Pub Date : 2023-08-01 Josep M. Argilés-Bosch, Diego Ravenda, Josep Garcia-Blandon
Using a sample of articles published in top accounting journals, we estimate a multivariate model and find empirical evidence of factors influencing delay in article acceptance. Acceptance delay is measured as the time from article submission to acceptance. We find that article length and journal workload are significantly and positively associated with acceptance delay, whereas the distance to historical
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There is no such thing as a predatory journal Learned Publishing (IF 2.711) Pub Date : 2023-08-01 Mike Downes
CONFLICT OF INTEREST STATEMENT The author declares no conflict of interest.
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Tips for writing plain language summaries of medical journal publications Learned Publishing (IF 2.711) Pub Date : 2023-07-26 Ju Wen, Lan Yi
CONFLICT OF INTEREST STATEMENT The authors declare no conflict of interest. The authors alone are responsible for the content and writing of the paper.
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Is ORCID your ID? A case study at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Porto Learned Publishing (IF 2.711) Pub Date : 2023-07-21 Viviana Fernández-Marcial, Llarina González-Solar, Ana Vale
Author disambiguation has been a key component of scientific communication since the mid-19th century, and now more than ever. This paper discusses the use of ORCID as a digital identity platform in Social Sciences and Humanities, by analysing the adoption of ORCID in the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Porto using a manual-qualitative method. The results show a discrepancy between
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Archiving website-based references in academic papers: Problems caused by reference rot, potential solutions and limitations Learned Publishing (IF 2.711) Pub Date : 2023-07-03 Jaime A. Teixeira da Silva, Maryna Nazarovets
REFERENCE ROT: WEB-BASED REFERENCE ADDRESSES THAT MOVE OR ARE DISCONTINUED The reference list of an academic paper, depending on the topic and breadth of discussion, can involve the citation of websites, that is, web-based references. Academics might also use a wide range of web-based tools to assist them with analyses or interpretations, so the increased use and reliance on the internet as a work
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Article processing charges for open access journal publishing: A review Learned Publishing (IF 2.711) Pub Date : 2023-07-03 Ángel Borrego
Some open access (OA) publishers charge authors fees to make their articles freely available online. This paper reviews literature on article processing charges (APCs) that has been published since 2000. Despite praise for diamond OA journals, which charge no fees, most OA articles are published by commercial publishers that charge APCs. Publishers fix APCs depending on the reputation assigned to journals
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Research grants, research collaboration, and publication in predatory journals: Evidence from publications by Indonesian social scientists Learned Publishing (IF 2.711) Pub Date : 2023-07-03 Heru Fahlevi, Fira Faradisa, Rahmad Dawood
This study investigates the role of research funding and research collaboration in the potential for publication in predatory journals among Indonesian social science academia. A total of 2953 articles published by at least one Indonesian author in the social science field between 2010 and 2020 in Scopus-indexed journals were collected. The SCImago quartiles of 2019 for the Scopus database and Beall's
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Correction to Publisher–Society partnerships to further image accessibility and global inclusivity in the Humanities and Social Sciences: Comparing top-down and bottom-up approaches Learned Publishing (IF 2.711) Pub Date : 2023-06-07
In the published article (https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/leap.1535), there was an unintended error where the corresponding author's name was spelled incorrectly under the author thumbnail. The correct name is “George Cooper”.
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Human- and AI-based authorship: Principles and ethics Learned Publishing (IF 2.711) Pub Date : 2023-06-01 Jaime A. Teixeira da Silva, Panagiotis Tsigaris
CONFLICT OF INTEREST STATEMENT The authors declare no conflicts of interest.
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Legalize text recycling Learned Publishing (IF 2.711) Pub Date : 2023-05-30 Cary Moskovitz, David R. Hansen, Mitchell Yelverton
Lovers of poetry would disdain a poet who reused stanzas from one of their previously published poems in a new one. Movie lovers would be stunned if their favourite filmmaker reused the car chase scene from their previous thriller in its sequel. But most of us would have no qualms about a university committee chair or head of a government research lab copying and pasting some paragraphs from last year's
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What to communicate in retraction notices? Learned Publishing (IF 2.711) Pub Date : 2023-05-25 Shaoxiong Brian Xu, Guangwei Hu
CONFLICT OF INTEREST STATEMENT The authors declare no conflict of interest.
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Anonymous editorials in biomedical research journals: Few in number but potentially problematic Learned Publishing (IF 2.711) Pub Date : 2023-05-24 James L. Nuzzo
Editorials are a common article type in biomedical research journals. Editorials are usually brief comments by the journal's chief editor or associate editors on journal news (e.g., submission policies, impact factor), findings from new studies, or broader trends in research or medical practice. Editorials are a way for editors to communicate directly with readers. Thus, editorials serve an important
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Initial insight into three modes of data sharing: Prevalence of primary reuse, data integration and dataset release in research articles Learned Publishing (IF 2.711) Pub Date : 2023-05-09 Yukiko Sakai, Yosuke Miyata, Keiko Yokoi, Yuqing Wang, Keiko Kurata
While data sharing has received research interest in recent times, its real status remains unclear, owing to its ambiguous concept. To understand the current status of data sharing, this study examined primary reuse, data integration, and dataset release as the actual practices of data sharing. A total of 963 articles, chosen from those published in 2018 and registered in the Web of Science global
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How to improve scientific peer review: Four schools of thought Learned Publishing (IF 2.711) Pub Date : 2023-04-27 Ludo Waltman, Wolfgang Kaltenbrunner, Stephen Pinfield, Helen Buckley Woods
Peer review plays an essential role as one of the cornerstones of the scholarly publishing system. There are many initiatives that aim to improve the way in which peer review is organized, resulting in a highly complex landscape of innovation in peer review. Different initiatives are based on different views on the most urgent challenges faced by the peer review system, leading to a diversity of perspectives
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Development of a diagnostic framework and its application to open access journal publishing in Korea Learned Publishing (IF 2.711) Pub Date : 2023-04-24 Nayon Kim, JungWon Yoon, Jae Yun Lee, Kyoung Hee Joung, Hyekyong Hwang, Seo Young Bai, EunKyung Chung
To enhance open access (OA) journal publishing environments, this study proposed and applied a diagnostic framework for OA journal publishing. The framework includes three dimensions: OA policy establishment and disclosure, OA sustainability and journal openness quality. By applying this framework to nine OA journals in the field of science and technology in Korea, challenges faced by OA publishing
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Missing a golden opportunity? An analysis of publication trends by income level in the Directory of Open Access Journals 1987–2020 Learned Publishing (IF 2.711) Pub Date : 2023-04-18 David Druelinger, Lai Ma
The growing prevalence of the gold open access model can exacerbate the monoculture of research and inequality in knowledge production. This study examines publication trends in the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) journals by countries' income level from 1987 to 2020. By combining article metadata from journals listed in the DOAJ with World Bank country income data, this analysis examines
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The impact of the pandemic on early career researchers' work-life and scholarly communications: A quantitative aerial analysis Learned Publishing (IF 2.711) Pub Date : 2023-03-17 David Nicholas, Eti Herman, David Clark, Cherifa Boukacem-Zeghmouri, Blanca Rodríguez-Bravo, Abdullah Abrizah, Anthony Watkinson, David Sims, Marzena 'Świgoń, Jie Xu, Galina Serbina, Hamid R. Jamali, Carol Tenopir, Suzie Allard
After two-years of repeat interviewing early career sciences/social sciences researchers from around the world about their work life and scholarly communications in pandemic-times, the Harbingers-2 project is in a position to release quantitative data on the pandemic's overall impact. The data comes from around 50 questions asked in the third and final round of interviews with 147 early career researchers
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Tensions and challenges in the decolonisation of academic publishing: A cross-tabulation analysis of articles in Island Studies Journal Learned Publishing (IF 2.711) Pub Date : 2023-02-15 Adam Grydehøj, Ping Su, Shoujuan Huang, Yaso Nadarajah
Calls to decolonise academia are increasing, yet progress has been halting, including in academic publishing. This paper considers publishing practices and outcomes in Island Studies Journal (a diamond open access, multidisciplinary, high-ranked journal), which has taken an explicitly decolonial editorial direction in recent years. We undertake a cross-tabulation analysis of the 175 articles published
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Characteristics of scholarly journals published in non-English-speaking countries: An analysis of Library and Information Science SCOPUS journals Learned Publishing (IF 2.711) Pub Date : 2023-02-15 JungWon Yoon, Nayon Kim, EunKyung Chung
Although regional journals publish high-quality research in diverse languages, research published in non-English-speaking countries (NESC) tends to have lower international visibility. By outlining the characteristics of SCOPUS journals published in NESC, this study aimed to inform regional scholarly communities interested in internationalizing their journals. A list of 294 SCOPUS journals in the Library
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From working group to standing committee: A history of diversity, equity, inclusion and accessibility work at the Society for Scholarly Publishing Learned Publishing (IF 2.711) Pub Date : 2023-02-15 Rebecca McLeod, Damita Snow, Nick Dormer
FIRST YEAR: 2016 Before becoming an essential component within the Society for Scholarly Publishing (SSP), the Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Accessibility (DEIA) Committee evolved from several groups of passionate professionals who were looking for meaningful change in the scholarly publishing industry. Equity in publishing, specifically the problem of gender pay gap, was among the prevailing topics
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MISQ's DEI initiatives: A continuing journey Learned Publishing (IF 2.711) Pub Date : 2023-02-15 Andrew Burton-Jones, Saonee Sarker
INTRODUCTION The information systems (IS) academic discipline sits at the confluence of technology and business and seeks to understand the development, use, management, and impacts of information systems in organizations and society. The field emerged in the 1960s within business schools and informatics schools around the world, and gradually gained all the hallmarks of a mature academic field, with
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Implementing a diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility strategy: Lessons learned at five scholarly communications organizations Learned Publishing (IF 2.711) Pub Date : 2023-02-15 Ashley Wells Ajinkya, Kimberly Gladfelter Graham, Alice Meadows, Bahar Mehmani, Rajendrani Mukhopadhyay, Maria Stanton
Interest in issues of diversity, equity, inclusion and accessibility (DEIA) has increased significantly in recent years. A very basic measure of this is the number of scholarly articles written on the topic, which have grown from 196,000 between 2000 and 2010, to 441,000 between 2010 and 2020.1 Much of this research focuses on the organizational benefits of improving DEIA. For example, a 2018 McKinsey
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Factors affecting authors' manuscript submission behaviour: A systematic review Learned Publishing (IF 2.711) Pub Date : 2023-02-14 Xiaoting Xu, Juan Xie, Jianjun Sun, Ying Cheng
As an important medium of science communication, academic journals promote the flow and growth of scientific knowledge. To examine the influence of factors on authors' choice of a journal, this paper reviews the literature on journal selection. A systematic review and critical interpretive synthesis methods were used in this study. A total of 132 articles were included and the content characteristics
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Do graphical abstracts on a publisher's official website have an effect on articles' usage and citations? A propensity score matching analysis Learned Publishing (IF 2.711) Pub Date : 2023-02-14 Qianjin Zong, Zhihong Huang, Zhijun Deng
This study aimed to examine whether a graphical abstract (GA) on a publisher's official website affected an article's usage and citations. Articles published in Molecules during 2016 (n = 1389) and 2017 (n = 1804) were selected as the data sets. Propensity score matching analysis was conducted to examine the data sets. The results showed that articles with GAs had significantly greater text abstract
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Rates of editor-authored manuscripts among urology journals using blinded or non-blinded review Learned Publishing (IF 2.711) Pub Date : 2023-02-14 James Flanary, Zachary Rengel, Niranjan Sathianathen, Robert Lane, Stephanie Jarosek, Nik Barkve, Christopher Weight
We compared publication rates of editor-authored publications between journals that do not blind peer reviewers to author identity with one that does. Our hypothesis was that the if the identity of editors as authors is known to peer reviewers this may potentially bias the recommendation for publication. To do this, we queried Scopus for all publications from five top urology journals from 2013 to
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Promotion and caution in research article abstracts: The use of positive, negative and hedge words across disciplines and rankings Learned Publishing (IF 2.711) Pub Date : 2023-02-14 Shaoliang Xie, Chenggang Mi
Abstract as a promotional genre has been an increasing interest in recent years, leading to an intriguing debate on the objectivity of scientific writing. The present study investigated the promotion and caution in research article abstracts through the use of positive, negative and hedge words across disciplines and rankings based on a large and principled dataset (more than 12.6 million words). The
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The future of scientific journals: The rise of UniAI Learned Publishing (IF 2.711) Pub Date : 2023-02-13 Farrokh Habibzadeh
CONFLICT OF INTEREST The author declares no conflict of interest.