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Should Open Access Lead to Closed Research? The Trends Towards Paying to Perform Research

Should Open Access Lead to Closed Research? The Trends Towards Paying to Perform Research

Open Access (OA) emerged as an important transition in scholarly publishing worldwide during the past two decades. The industry is moving towards article processing charges (APC) based OA as the more profitable business model. Research publishing will be closed to those who cannot make an institution or project money payment. This article discusses whether APC is the best way to promote OA.

Stop Congratulating Colleagues for Publishing in High-Impact Factor Journals

Stop Congratulating Colleagues for Publishing in High-Impact Factor Journals

The current scholarly publishing system is detrimental to the pursuit of knowledge and needs a radical shift. There have already been many attempts and partial successes to drive a new shift in scholarly publishing. Many of them should be further developed and generalised.

Reflections on Guest Editing a Frontiers Journal

Reflections on Guest Editing a Frontiers Journal

The authors critically discuss their experience as guest editors for a Frontiers journal. They aim to foster open scholarly debate about Frontiers publishing practices, triggered by Frontiers hindering such debate on their own pages.

Open Editors: A Dataset of Scholarly Journals' Editorial Board Positions

Open Editors: A Dataset of Scholarly Journals' Editorial Board Positions

Editormetrics analyses the role of editors of academic journals and their impact on the scientific publication system - but open, structured and machine-readable data remains rare.

Machine Translation Could Make English-only Science Accessible to All

Machine Translation Could Make English-only Science Accessible to All

UC Berkeley scientists and students looked at current artificial intelligence translation systems and found that, though flawed, they have become good enough for researchers to broadly translate their work into other languages, at least the languages of the coauthors and the country in which the research was conducted. One problem: how to get permissions to translate and share, and where will these translations live online.

Journal Impact Factor and Peer Review Thoroughness and Helpfulness: A Supervised Machine Learning Study

Journal Impact Factor and Peer Review Thoroughness and Helpfulness: A Supervised Machine Learning Study

This study indicates that the JIF is a bad predictor for the quality of peer review of an individual manuscript.

Writing Workshops

Writing Workshops

The intention of the Writing Workshops is to cultivate professional networks and mentorship and provide access for early career researchers in developing countries to the academic requirements of journals, including international journals, and to equip them with the necessary knowledge and skills to publish in these journals.

Ukrainian Researchers Pressure Journals to Boycott Russian Authors

Ukrainian Researchers Pressure Journals to Boycott Russian Authors

Most titles are still considering manuscripts irrespective of nationality - but Russia plans to remove a requirement for scientists to publish in foreign titles.

For LGBQ Scientists, Being Out Can Mean More Publications

For LGBQ Scientists, Being Out Can Mean More Publications

Papers are a key currency for academic careers. LGBQ academic scientists who don’t disclose their sexual orientation in the workplace publish fewer papers than their out or non-LGBQ peers.