April 11, 2024
Amanda D. Clark, in a February PeerJ study looking at citations in hybrid journals: …. we found that publishing open access in hybrid journals that offer the option confers an average citation advantage to authors of 17.8 citations compared to closed access articles...
April 9, 2024
Tracey Armstrong, in an interview for The Scholarly Kitchen last week: What keeps me up at night is the unlicensed use of copyrighted material in AI systems and the lack of recognition globally of the critical, foundational, and perpetual role that copyrighted...
April 2, 2024
Gail Steinhart and Katherine Skinner, announcing a new Invest in Open Infrastructure report on data-repository funding: Here, we present an initial report on our findings as part of our project to investigate “reasonable costs” for public access to United States...
March 29, 2024
Mikhail Gorbunov-Posadov, in a November article in publications: An alive publication is a new genre for presenting the results of scientific research, where the scientific work is published online, and then is constantly being developed and improved by its author....
March 4, 2024
Alison Mudditt, CEO of PLOS, in an interview with The Scholarly Kitchen about a year ago: Back when PLOS launched and focused on the biomedical sciences, charging authors a fee to publish seemed fair and reasonable. Fast forward twenty years and it’s clear that we...
March 4, 2024
Nathalie Ann Köbli and colleagues, writing for Frontiers in Communication on gamification of social scientists’ publishing: Quantifying publication outcomes to assess and financially incentivize research performance results in a highly competitive playing field where...
