Metrics from different sources are compared in two studies published as preprints. The research indicated that altmetrics, as currently framed, are significantly weaker indicators of research quality - as measured by expert peers’ assessments - than traditional metrics.

Paper advising universities to provide early-career researchers with temporal space for research and networking, facilitate stays at other universities, inform them about career success factors, and tailor faculty development programmes to the distinct stages of academic careers.

Using newly available open access status data, year-on-year open access levels are explored across research fields, languages, countries, institutions, funders and topics, and the resulting patterns are related to disciplinary, national and institutional contexts.

There is a replication crisis spreading through the annals of scientific inquiry.

A paper providing a bibliometric analysis of Zenodo records by using different metrics for citedness, including citation, usage, and altmetrics. 

Automatic identification of topics from the classification of research publications.

An article addressing the constant struggle to improve science communication.

On the role of different stakeholders on how to collectively improve the process of scholarly communications not only for preprints, but other forms of scholarly contributions.

Article exploring the journal peer review process, examining how the reviewing process might itself contribute to papers, leading them to be more highly cited and to achieve greater recognition.

Article documenting increases in research output quantity - accompanied by decreases in quality - near the time of government-set deadlines for university evaluations.