Tag: Publication Concerns

The Promises and Limitations of Measuring Research Impact

By Tara Newby | Published: June 29, 2018

How can the impact of an academic article be measured? It seems that everyone wants to find an answer to this question – from the researcher and author teams that create research articles, to the editors and peer reviewers who curate them, to the societies and publishers who ensure that the articles are released to the world.

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Literature Reviews Are Already Broken, So Let’s Kill Them

By Richard P. Phelps | Published: June 25, 2018

The literature review is a staple of the scholarly article. But when reviews misrepresent previous studies or suggest there's a paucity of information when there isn't, doesn't,this degrade the knowledge base? Richard P. Phelps argues that, given the difficulty of verifying an author’s claims during peer review, it is best that journals drop the requirement for a literature review in scholarly articles.

Posted in Communication, Higher Education Reform | Also tagged Academic Publishing, Literature Review, scholarly articles | Leave a comment

Survey Asks Questions About Scholarly Journal Use

By SAGE | Published: March 27, 2018

In the latest iteration of a survey series she's been running for four decades, Carol Tenopir aims to assess the value of access to scholarly journals by examining patterns of use and reading. Your input is sought.

Posted in Communication, Interdisciplinarity | Also tagged Journals, survey | Leave a comment

Cry from Publons: Let’s End Reviewer Fraud

By Publons | Published: February 6, 2018

Peer review has become a major editorial challenge for publishers worldwide, but options do exist to help tackle fraudulent peer reviewers. In this post from the Publons blog, some options for what publishers can do are examined.

Posted in Communication, Research Ethics | Also tagged Fraud, Peer Review, Publons | Leave a comment

Survey Asks About Sci-Hub, ResearchGate, Video Discovery

By Social Science Space | Published: January 26, 2018

Since 2004, Renew Publishing Consultants has surveyed researchers, students, teachers, lecturers, professors, journalists, managers, clinicians, medics, librarians, government officials, and engineers, working across all sectors and in all regions to learn about the uptake of academic content.

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Do Journal Rankings Give Short Shrift to the South?

By Diego Chavarro and Ismael Ràfols | Published: October 31, 2017

Many research evaluation systems continue to take a narrow view of excellence, judging the value of work based on the journal in which it is published. Recent research by Diego Chavarro, Ismael Ràfols and colleagues shows how such systems underestimate and prove detrimental to the production of research relevant to important social, economic, and environmental issues and reflect the biases of journal citation databases which focus heavily on English-language research from the US and Western Europe.

Posted in Communication, Higher Education Reform | Also tagged DORA, Leiden Statement | Leave a comment

Can Artificial Intelligence Improve Peer Review and Publishing Itself?

By Chadwick C. DeVoss | Published: May 15, 2017

The founder of StateReviewer outlines a future where humans are written out of the publication process by artificial intelligence. But is the goal of eradicating bias and other malignancies potentially opening the door to a new set of ills?

Posted in Higher Education Reform, International Debates | Also tagged Artificial Intelligence, Peer Review, StateReviewer | 1 Response

Who Will Challenge the Predators Now That Beall’s List is Gone?

By Michael J.I. Brown | Published: January 24, 2017

University librarian Jeffrey Beall used to write a blog that identified by name what he saw as predatory publishers of academic journals. Since he suddenly shut down the site earlier this month, will --or even should -- someone else pick up the baton?

Posted in Communication, Open Access | Also tagged Jeffrey Beall, Predatory Publishing, The Conversation | Leave a comment

Research > Publication > Impact (You Might Need a Strategy for That)

By Janet Salmons | Published: January 4, 2017

A publication strategy should include carefully-defined goals, a purposeful timeline, and actionable steps for proposing and writing the kinds of pieces large or small that allow others to access what we’ve learned, produce impact, and propel our careers forward.

Posted in Tips | Also tagged Academic Publishing, Publication Strategy | Leave a comment

Archived Webinar: Librarians and the Freedom to Read

By SAGE | Published: October 10, 2016

Last month the webinar "Battling Bannings- Authors discuss intellectual freedom and the freedom to read" saw Index on Censorship’s Vicky Baker moderate a discussion between historian Wendy Doniger and children's book authors Christine Baldacchino and Jessica Herthel.

Posted in Communication, International Debates | Also tagged Academic Freedom, American Library Association, libraries | Leave a comment

The Financialisation of Academic Knowledge Production

By Dylan Kerrigan | Published: October 5, 2016

As part of our series on academic freedom, Dylan Kerrigan discusses the wider implications of the financialisation of academic knowledge production by considering academic book publishing. He asks if the success of academic books is best measured by economic or non-economic criteria, by its impact on the business sector or its veracity, by ideological myth-making or evidence.

Posted in Academic Funding, Communication | Also tagged Academic Freedom, Academic Knowledge | Leave a comment

Existing Career Incentives Are Often Bad for Science

By Paul Smaldino | Published: October 4, 2016

A culture of bad science can evolve as a result of institutional incentives that prioritize simple quantitative metrics as measures of success, argues Paul Smaldino. But, he adds, not all is lost as new initiatives such as open data and replication are making a positive difference.

Posted in Early Career, Higher Education Reform | Also tagged Ethics, Incentives, Metrics | Leave a comment

Tag: Publication Concerns

The Promises and Limitations of Measuring Research Impact

Literature Reviews Are Already Broken, So Let’s Kill Them

Survey Asks Questions About Scholarly Journal Use

Cry from Publons: Let’s End Reviewer Fraud

Survey Asks About Sci-Hub, ResearchGate, Video Discovery

Do Journal Rankings Give Short Shrift to the South?

Can Artificial Intelligence Improve Peer Review and Publishing Itself?

Who Will Challenge the Predators Now That Beall’s List is Gone?

Research > Publication > Impact (You Might Need a Strategy for That)

Archived Webinar: Librarians and the Freedom to Read

The Financialisation of Academic Knowledge Production

Existing Career Incentives Are Often Bad for Science

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