Risk of Being Scooped Drives Scientists to Shoddy Methods
Models suggest that the race for quick results and the importance of being the first to publish is leading to lower scientific standards.
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Publishers Still Don't Prioritize Researchers
Scholarly publishers still do not meet researchers' needs. Doing so would require that they rethink existing businesses and organizational models.
The Altmetric Top 100 - 2020
What research caught the public imagination in 2020? Check out Altmetrics' annual list of papers with the most attention.
Imagining a Transformed Scientific Publication Landscape
Open Science is not a finish line, but a means to an end. Widespread adoption of Open Science policies would improve the transparency, reusability and connectivity of scientific outputs.
Current Market Rates for Scholarly Publishing Services
This article provides a granular, step-by-step calculation of the costs associated with publishing primary research articles, from submission, through peer-review, to publication, indexing and archiving.
In Biology Publishing Shakeup, ELife Will Require Submissions to Be Posted As Preprints
In Biology Publishing Shakeup, ELife Will Require Submissions to Be Posted As Preprints
Elsevier Looking into "very Serious Concerns" After Student Calls out Journal for Fleet of Star Trek Articles
Elsevier Looking into "very Serious Concerns" After Student Calls out Journal for Fleet of Star Trek Articles
How a Torrent of COVID Science Changed Research Publishing - in Seven Charts
Peer Review and Gender Bias: A Study on 145 Scholarly Journals
Continued Post-retraction Citation of a Fraudulent Clinical Trial Report, 11 years After It Was Retracted for Falsifying Data
Continued Post-retraction Citation of a Fraudulent Clinical Trial Report, 11 years After It Was Retracted for Falsifying Data
Is Academic Publishing About to Change?
The open access debate has revealed the complicated and contradictory nature of the academic publishing landscape in which trade unions have a role to play.
Scientific Journals Commit to Diversity, but Lack the Data
Should publishers track the ethnicity of the researchers contributing to their platforms?
Guide to Creative Commons for Scholarly Publications and Educational Resources
Guide to Creative Commons for Scholarly Publications and Educational Resources
This guide wants to inform researchers about the Creative Commons (CC) licence system
How Open Access Allows for a Greater Diversity of People to Engage with a Discussion
How Open Access Allows for a Greater Diversity of People to Engage with a Discussion
This year's open access week will be talking to a number of researchers.
Are Publishers Learning from Their Mistakes?
Publishers have retracted more than 20 COVID-related papers. Are they learning from their mistakes and fixing process failures?
Open Conversation About OA Books. Live session on October 20th
Open Conversation About OA Books. Live session on October 20th
The Open Access Tracking Project (OATP), initiated in 2009, is a crowd-sourced social-tagging project that runs on open-source software. It captures news and comment on open access (OA) to research in every academic field and region of the world.
More Readers in More Places: The Benefits of Open Access for Scholarly Books
More Readers in More Places: The Benefits of Open Access for Scholarly Books
New report published by Springer Nature analyses usage patterns across open access and closed books.The results show higher geographic diversity of usage, higher numbers of downloads and more citations for open access books.
Dozens of Scientific Journals Have Vanished from the Internet, and No One Preserved Them
Dozens of Scientific Journals Have Vanished from the Internet, and No One Preserved Them
Most open access journals lack the technical means and plans to preserve their articles, despite a mandate from some funders that they do so. Specialists worry about a potential loss to scholarship.
Publishers, Are You Ready to ROR? - Crossref
Author affiliations, and the ability to link them to publications and other scholarly outputs, are vital for numerous stakeholders across the research landscape. With the launch of the Research Organization Registry (ROR) in 2019 (which Crossref has helped to develop), the landscape is changing. ROR IDs are an opportunity to make affiliation details easier for publishers to use and easier for those who rely on this data.
Women's Journal Submission Rates Continue to Fall
Women's journal submission rates fell as their caring responsibilities jumped due to COVID-19. Without meaningful interventions, the trend is likely to continue.
An Extensive Analysis of the Presence of Altmetric Data for Web of Science Publications Across Subject Fields and Research Topics
An Extensive Analysis of the Presence of Altmetric Data for Web of Science Publications Across Subject Fields and Research Topics
This paper presents a state-of-the-art analysis of the presence of 12 kinds of altmetric events for nearly 12.3 million Web of Science publications published between 2012 and 2018.
A Conversation with a data integrity specialist who works to keep published images honest
A Conversation with a data integrity specialist who works to keep published images honest
Kaoru Sakabe is academic publishing’s version of an in-house detective. In 2017, she and editors at the Journal of Biological Chemistry (JBC) conducted a pilot study looking for image manipulation in accepted papers. When 10% of papers came back with a possible issue, the team was shocked.
Toolkits for Equity
While a growing awareness of racial disparities has resulted in a groundswell of support for inclusivity in scholarly publishing, the resulting initiatives would be more effective if professional associations were able to provide training materials to help transform organizational cultures.
Five Better Ways to Assess Science
Hong Kong Principles seek to replace 'publish or perish' culture.
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