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When comparing journals using citation-based metrics, the percentage of highly cited papers is more informative than the average number of citations.
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When comparing journals using citation-based metrics, the percentage of highly cited papers is more informative than the average number of citations.
Self-citations, if left unchecked, can have a negative impact on the scientific workforce, the way that we publish new knowledge, and ultimately the course of scientific advance.
A quantitative analysis of contemporary publishing patterns in the humanities, as well as a conceptual account of the historical relationship of publishing practices to the modern research university.
Established publishers have a strong motivation to hype claims of predation as damaging to the scholarly and scientific endeavour.
Guidelines for active and efficient data sharing between those generating data and those analyzing it.
Understanding the research dynamics preceding the emergence of new areas.
Scientists are required to communicate science and research not only to other experts in the field, but also to scientists and experts from other fields, as well as to the public and policymakers. One fundamental suggestion when communicating with non-experts is to avoid professional jargon.
Published P-values provide a window into the global enterprise of medical research. The aim of this study was to use the distribution of published P-values to estimate the relative frequencies of null and alternative hypotheses and to seek irregularities suggestive of publication bias.
The infographic shows how to achieve 100% Open Access for free and legally.
We propose to use an approach that yields a simple numerical measure of veracity, the R-factor, by summarizing the outcomes of already published studies that have attempted to test a claim.
Although there are differences among journals across the spectrum of JIFs, the citation distributions overlap extensively, demonstrating that the citation performance of individual papers cannot be inferred from the JIF.
Large study of open research analysed reader data from Unpaywall tool, which finds freely available versions of articles.
A collection of thirteen papers that were intended to be unpublishable. All were submitted to predatory journals to expose non-existent peer review and exploitative practices.
Funder reflections on the Open Science Prize.
A landscape study of new university presses and academic-led publishing.
The field of ecology is poised to take advantage of emerging technologies that facilitate the gathering, analyzing, and sharing of data, methods, and results.
Openness requires trust in close peers, but not necessarily in research community or society at large.
An analysis of 15 million English scientific full-text articles published during the period 1823-2016.
Sci-Hub's contains 68.9% of all 81.6 million scholarly articles, which rises to 85.2% for those published in closed access journals and 77.0% of the 5.2 million articles published by inactive journals.
There is too little sound research on journal peer review.
Examining the functionality of a range of social Web platforms, and comparing these with the traits underlying a viable peer review system.
On awarding research funds on the basis of a modified lottery in which peer review is used to identify the most meritorious proposals, from which funded applications are selected by lottery.
ReScience is a peer-reviewed journal that targets computational research and encourages the explicit replication of already published research.
A Tutorial on the Git Version Control System.
New study of harassment of graduate students by faculty members suggests that the problem is worse -- both in level of offense and prevalence of repeat offenders -- than many believe.
Evaluation of humanities research in Norway.
I think I am the only living person in Sweden who achieved a professor chair with only one international journal publication.