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Springer Nature and ResearchGate Announce New Cooperation to Make It Easier to Navigate the Sharing of Academic Journal Articles

Springer Nature and ResearchGate Announce New Cooperation to Make It Easier to Navigate the Sharing of Academic Journal Articles

Springer Nature and ResearchGate, along with Cambridge University Press and Thieme, will work together on the sharing of articles on the scholarly collaboration platform in a way that protects the rights of authors and publishers.

A Novel Method for Depicting Academic Disciplines Through Google Scholar Citations

A Novel Method for Depicting Academic Disciplines Through Google Scholar Citations

This research article describes a procedure to generate a snapshot of the structure of a specific scientific community and their outputs based on the information available in Google Scholar Citations (GSC)....

What Makes Academic Careers Less Insecure? The Role of Individual-Level Antecedents

What Makes Academic Careers Less Insecure? The Role of Individual-Level Antecedents

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.

Journal Peer Review: A Bar or Bridge? An Analysis of a Paper's Revision History and Turnaround Time, and the Effect on Citation

Journal Peer Review: A Bar or Bridge? An Analysis of a Paper's Revision History and Turnaround Time, and the Effect on Citation

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.

Do ResearchGate Scores Create Ghost Academic Reputations?

Do ResearchGate Scores Create Ghost Academic Reputations?

The academic social network site ResearchGate (RG) has its own indicator, RG Score, for its members. The high profile nature of the site means that the RG Score may be used for recruitment, promotion

Duration and Quality of the Peer Review Process: The Author's Perspective

Duration and Quality of the Peer Review Process: The Author's Perspective

An analysis of data from 3500 review experiences submitted by authors to the SciRev.sc website.

Springer Nature SciGraph: Supporting Open Science and the Wider Understanding of Research

Springer Nature SciGraph: Supporting Open Science and the Wider Understanding of Research

Pioneering semantic platform with Linked Open Data to serve the needs of the research community.

Springer Nature Becomes Largest Publisher to Open up All Reference Lists

Springer Nature Becomes Largest Publisher to Open up All Reference Lists

Working closely with Crossref, Springer Nature will make the metadata for reference lists available across all academic books and owned journals.

Quantifying the Effect of Editor–Author Relations on Manuscript Handling Times

Quantifying the Effect of Editor–Author Relations on Manuscript Handling Times

Prior co-authorship relations have a large and significant influence on manuscript handling times, speeding up the editorial decision on average by 19 days.

Open Access to Scientific Articles: A Review of Benefits and Challenges

Open Access to Scientific Articles: A Review of Benefits and Challenges

The different options to achieve open access, whether by journals changing their revenue structures from subscription to publishing charges, or authors utilizing a number of options for posting open access versions of article manuscripts in repositories.

Over 600 Springer Nature Journals Commit to New Data Sharing Policies

Over 600 Springer Nature Journals Commit to New Data Sharing Policies

More than 600 journals across Nature Research, Springer, BioMed Central and Palgrave Macmillan have committed to encouraging good practice in the sharing and archiving and citation of research data by adopting new Springer Nature research data policies.

Avoiding Obscure Topics and Generalising Findings

Avoiding Obscure Topics and Generalising Findings

A word frequency analysis of 874,411 English article titles to assess the likelihood that research on obscure (rarely researched) topics is less cited.

An efficient system to fund science

An efficient system to fund science

This paper presents a novel model of science funding that exploits the wisdom of the scientific crowd. Each researcher receives an equal, unconditional part of all available science funding on a yearly basis, but is required to individually donate to other scientists a given fraction of all they receive. Science funding thus moves from one scientist to the next in such a way that scientists who receive many donations must also redistribute the most. As the funding circulates through the scientific community it is mathematically expected to converge on a funding distribution favored by the entire scientific community. This is achieved without any proposal submissions or reviews.

Automatic Generation of Scientific Paper Reviews

Automatic Generation of Scientific Paper Reviews

Peer review is widely viewed as an essential step for ensuring scientific quality of a work and is a cornerstone of scholarly publishing. In this work we investigate the feasibility of a tool capable of generating fake reviews for a given scientific paper automatically.

Does high impact factor successfully predict future citations? An analysis using Peirce’s measure

Does high impact factor successfully predict future citations? An analysis using Peirce’s measure

It is clear that the journal impact factor is not effective in predicting future citations of successful authors.