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Peer review and preprint policies are unclear at most major journals
AbstractClear and findable publishing policies are important for authors to choose appropriate journals for publication. We investigated the clarity of policies of 171 major... -
Medicine and the media: Medical experts' problems and solutions while working...
Medical experts are one of the main sources used by journalists in reporting on medical science. This study aims to 1) identify problems that medical experts encounter in... -
Open access publishers: The new players
The essential role of journals as registries of scientific activity in all areas of knowledge justifies concern about their ownership and type of access. The purpose of this... -
Vanishing industries and the rising monopoly of universities in published res...
Anecdotes abound regarding the decline of basic research in industrial and governmental settings, but very little empirical evidence exists about the phenomenon. This article... -
Journals’ instructions to authors: A cross-sectional study across scientific ...
In light of increasing calls for transparent reporting of research and prevention of detrimental research practices, we conducted a cross-sectional machine-assisted analysis of... -
Double-edged sword of interdisciplinary knowledge flow from hard sciences to ...
: Humanities and Social Sciences (HSS) increasingly absorb knowledge from Hard Sciences, i.e., Science, Technology, Agriculture and Medicine (STAM), as testified by a growing... -
A measure of knowledge flow between specific fields: Implications of interdis...
Encouraging knowledge flow between mutually relevant disciplines is a worthy aim of research policy makers. Yet, it is less clear what types of research promote... -
Wikipedia as a gateway to biomedical research: The relative distribution and ...
: Wikipedia is a gateway to knowledge. However, the extent to which this gateway ends at Wikipedia or continues via supporting citations is unknown. Wikipedia's gateway... -
Why we publish where we do: Faculty publishing values and their relationship ...
AbstractUsing an online survey of academics at 55 randomly selected institutions across the US and Canada, we explore priorities for publishing decisions and their perceived... -
Does bibliometric research confer legitimacy to research assessment practice?...
The use of bibliometric measures in the evaluation of research has increased considerably based on expertise from the growing research field of evaluative citation analysis... -
Identifying publications in questionable journals in the context of performan...
Abstract: In this article we discuss the five yearly screenings for publications in questionable journals which have been carried out in the context of the performance-based... -
A discourse analysis of the macro-structure, metadiscoursal and microdiscours...
The abstract of a scientific research article convinces readers that the article deserves to be read. Abstracts can also determine the success of publications and grant... -
A study of the impact of data sharing on article citations using journal poli...
This study estimates the effect of data sharing on the citations of academic articles, using journal policies as a natural experiment. We begin by examining 17 high-impact... -
Open Access Meets Discoverability: Citations to Articles Posted to Academia.edu
Using matching and regression analyses, we measure the difference in citations between articles posted to Academia.edu and other articles from similar journals, controlling for... -
Open-Access Mega-Journals: A Bibliometric Profile
In this paper we present the first comprehensive bibliometric analysis of eleven open-access mega-journals (OAMJs). OAMJs are a relatively recent phenomenon, and have been... -
Expanding the actions of Open Government in higher education sector: From web...
Universities have been pressured by governments to change their way of acting and to be more responsible with the requirements of social development to face the challenges of... -
Research data sharing in the Australian national science agency: Understandin...
This study delineates the relative importance of organisational, research discipline and application domain factors in influencing researchers' data sharing practices in... -
Productivity, impact, and collaboration differences between transdisciplinary...
: Transdisciplinary (TD) approaches are increasingly used to address complex public health problems such as childhood obesity. Compared to traditional grant-funded scientific... -
Can scientists fill the science journalism void? Online public engagement wit...
AbstractIn many countries the public’s main source of information about science and technology is the mass media. Unfortunately, in recent years traditional journalism has...
