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Platform Diving - Top Journals, UX, and the Lure of Harmonization

Platform Diving - Top Journals, UX, and the Lure of Harmonization

A review of top journals in 18 fields show they are on a variety of platforms, suggesting cognitive burden for users which may be driving them to aggregated options with unified user experiences.

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?

Designing a New Type of Journal Metric

Designing a New Type of Journal Metric

At the Researcher to Reader conference, a volunteer project called Project Cupcake was launched to define a new suite of indicators to help researchers judge publishers, rather than the other way around.

Axios Review a failed experiment in outsourcing peer review?

Axios Review a failed experiment in outsourcing peer review?

Does the closing of @AxiosReview portend the end of independent peer review, or just the wrong business model?

How Many Grains of Salt Must We Take When Looking at Metrics?

How Many Grains of Salt Must We Take When Looking at Metrics?

Authors want to know about citations, downloads, and impact metrics. This post reviews common metrics and explores the limitations inherent in each.

World Article Publishing Illustrates Regional Values

World Article Publishing Illustrates Regional Values

An interactive visualization of article publication data from the 2016 NSF Science & Engineering Report suggest discrepancies in the cultures of science around the world.