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Can Editors Protect Peer Review from Bad Reviewers?

Can Editors Protect Peer Review from Bad Reviewers?

Peer review is the gold standard for scientific communication, but its ability to guarantee the quality of published research remains difficult to verify.

Exploring Characteristics of Highly Cited Authors According to Citation Location and Content

Exploring Characteristics of Highly Cited Authors According to Citation Location and Content

Big Science and cross‐disciplinary collaborations have reshaped the intellectual structure of research areas. A number of works have tried to uncover this hidden intellectual structure.

Reverse Engineering JCR's Self-Citation and Citation Stacking Thresholds

Reverse Engineering JCR's Self-Citation and Citation Stacking Thresholds

Now we know how suppression decisions are made, should metrics companies suppress titles at all or simply make the underlying data more transparent?

Bias in Distribution of K99 Awards and Faculty Hires

Bias in Distribution of K99 Awards and Faculty Hires

The biomedical research enterprise strives to be a meritocracy, but structural inequities and the reliance on nonscientific proxies such as journal impact and university prestige present roadblocks.

Public Knowledge Project @PKP

Public Knowledge Project @PKP

Public Knowledge Project - PKP is a multi-university initiative developing (free) open source software and conducting research to improve the quality and reach of scholarly publishing.

NIH Overhead Plan Draws Fire

NIH Overhead Plan Draws Fire

President Donald Trump's administration has brought a long-simmering debate over how the U.S. government supports university research back to a boil.

Dutch Contracts Have to Be Disclosed

Dutch Contracts Have to Be Disclosed

The open access contracts between the Dutch universities and publishers Elsevier and Springer have to be publicly disclosed. That is the verdict of the committee charged with considering the appeal of the publishers against a freedom of information request.

Diamond Open Access, Societies and Mission

Diamond Open Access, Societies and Mission

In this article Robert Harington assesses the Diamond open access model for society journal publishing.

Annual Meeting of the Society for Scholarly Publishing

Annual Meeting of the Society for Scholarly Publishing

Striking a Balance: Embracing Change While Preserving Tradition in Scholarly Communications

Zenodo Now Supports DOI Versioning

Zenodo Now Supports DOI Versioning

This feature enables users to update the record’s files after they have been made public and researchers to easily cite either specific versions of a record or to cite, via a top-level DOI, all the versions of a record.

Pay-to-View Blacklist of Predatory Journals Set to Launch

Pay-to-View Blacklist of Predatory Journals Set to Launch

Private firm says its watchlist of untrustworthy journals will be objective and transparent — but not free.

The Non-Scientist’s Guide to Reading and Understanding a Scientific Paper

The Non-Scientist’s Guide to Reading and Understanding a Scientific Paper

The right approach and a little extra effort will help improve your scientific literacy.