Metrics and Altmetrics

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rick Anderson
Keyword(s):  
Scholarly Publishing ◽  
Multiple Dimensions ◽  
The World

How is quality defined and measured in the world of scholarly publishing? The concept of scholarly quality is a complicated one because it has multiple dimensions that apply in different ways depending on the type of publication in question and the context in which it...

scholarly journals Vaccination against human papilloma virus in the light of quaternary prevention

2019 ◽  
Vol 14 (41) ◽  
pp. 1800 ◽  
Author(s):  
Miguel Pizzanelli ◽  
Marc Jamoulle
Keyword(s):  
Cervical Cancer ◽  
Hpv Vaccine ◽  
Pharmaceutical Companies ◽  
Papilloma Virus ◽  
Family Doctors ◽  
Multiple Dimensions ◽  
The World ◽  
World Organization ◽  
Quaternary Prevention ◽  
Opinion Article

In spite of the demonstrated benefits, the question of HPV massive vaccination is still subject to intense discussions and controversies. The protection against cancer is still unproven and need more time to be accurate about the quantification of the decrease in cervical cancer. The analysis of HPV vaccine relevance is very complex due to several overlapped levels to be considered. The authors analyze many of the ethical, sociological, economic, political and finally scientific issues involved. The population trust in vaccines has been affected owing to dubious practices of many pharmaceutical companies. Faced with this manipulation of information on a worldwide scale, general practitioners have organized themselves to fight this uncertainty. Quaternary prevention, a concept supported by the World Organization of Family doctors, advocates the application of ethically acceptable procedures in health care. This opinion article addresses some of the multiple dimensions involved to encourage reflection on this issue.

Global Patterns of Climate-resilient Agriculture: A Review of Studies and Imperatives for Empirical Research in India

2020 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 169-192
Author(s):  
P. K. Viswanathan ◽  
K. Kavya ◽  
Chandra Sekhar Bahinipati
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Empirical Research ◽  
Cropping Systems ◽  
Climate Change Impacts ◽  
Agriculture Sector ◽  
Indian Context ◽  
Multiple Dimensions ◽  
The World ◽  
Emerging Patterns ◽  
Different Parts

Globally, climate change impacts are manifold, severely affecting the agriculture sector. Climate-resilient agriculture (CRA) is viewed as a panacea for overcoming the adverse effects of climate change on agriculture. This article critically reviews the literature on CRA to delineate the emerging patterns of climate-resilient agriculture. It explores multiple dimensions of CRA as related to practices, technologies, policies, innovations and interventions across different parts of the world. In the end, a schematic approach towards undertaking empirical research on CRA in the Indian context is presented. The review finds that, globally, CRA practices mainly include systematic strategies for management of critical inputs, namely, land and water, cropping systems and livelihood management. It emerges that innovations and institutions have a crucial role in accelerating the rate of adoption of CRA practices. The article highlights the need for undertaking more empirical research to get a deeper understanding of the emerging patterns of CRA in the Indian context.

What to expect when you are not expecting to be a publisher

2014 ◽  
Vol 30 (3) ◽  
pp. 167-177 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sandra L. De Groote ◽  
Mary M. Case
Keyword(s):  
Initial Phase ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Scholarly Publishing ◽  
University Of Illinois ◽  
Pubmed Central ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The World ◽  
Publishing Services

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to outline the evolution of University of Illinois at Chicago’s (UIC) journal hosting service from the initial phase of setting up a server to host journals through to the point of offering a suite of library publishing services. The UIC has been hosting Internet-based journals since the 1990s. Design/methodology/approach – In this study, challenges and steps taken for inclusion in PubMed, archiving in PubMed Central and developing policies and parameters of support are discussed. Findings – Venturing into the world of Library as Publisher is not the decision that should be taken lightly, but supporting affordable scholarly publishing, when successful, is rewarding. Originality/value – This paper will be of value to libraries considering offering journal hosting services.

An architecture for scholarly publishing on the World Wide Web

1995 ◽  
Vol 28 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 239-245
Author(s):  
Stuart Weibel ◽  
Eric Miller ◽  
Jean Godby ◽  
Ralph LeVan
Keyword(s):  
World Wide Web ◽  
World Wide ◽  
Scholarly Publishing ◽  
The World

Globalization and inequality

2017 ◽  
Vol 32 (2) ◽  
pp. 170-179 ◽  
Author(s):  
Habibul Haque Khondker
Keyword(s):  
Middle Class ◽  
Review Essay ◽  
Social Stability ◽  
International Inequality ◽  
Multiple Dimensions ◽  
Egalitarian Society ◽  
The World ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Relationship

This review essay discusses works of a leading sociologist and a leading economist on the subject of inequality and globalization. The books raise fresh ideas of inequality in the context of globalization by raising questions on the relationship between globalization and inequality throughout history. Although Therborn raises some fundamental questions about inequality, problematizes the concept, and broadens the discussion by adding multiple dimensions to it, Bourguignon’s study deepens our understanding of the problem of inequality by presenting the paradox of its linkage with globalization, which in the last century reduced international inequality while it widened intranational inequality, and the two processes are interrelated. Bourguignon suggests that the growing intranational inequality that threatens economic, political, and social stability can be overcome by concerted efforts of the states. Therborn pins his hope in the rising middle class across the world and their solidarity, which could create a more egalitarian society.

scholarly journals Analysing Open Access Uptake by Academic and Research Institutions in India

2021 ◽  
Vol 41 (02) ◽  
pp. 108-115
Author(s):  
Mohammad Nazim
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Research Productivity ◽  
Scientific Research ◽  
Health Sciences ◽  
Scholarly Publishing ◽  
Research Institutions ◽  
Academic Institutions ◽  
Global Collaboration ◽  
Publication Data ◽  
The World

The commitment to Open Access (OA) movement has started revolutionising the outline of conventional scholarly publishing practices and welcoming the new wind to scientific research across the world. Motivating by the changing scenario, the study strives to analyse OA uptake by the Indian academic and research institutions concerning their research productivity. Publication data of 36 universities have been retrieved from the 2020 record of CWTS Leiden Ranking database. Findings of the study show that around 23 per cent of all publications of these universities are openly accessible, and their median OA publications proportion is much lower (around half) than the median measure of universities worldwide (43 %). ‘Green OA’ reserved the first place with 17 per cent of occurrence, and Biomedical and Health Sciences have achieved the highest median (34.37 %). The study concludes with a vision towards increasing the global collaboration of the academic institutions regarding OA following the account of the Indian achievements.

Postinternational Theory

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yale H. Ferguson ◽  
Richard W. Mansbach
Keyword(s):  
Global Politics ◽  
Ir Theory ◽  
Important Distinction ◽  
Political Issues ◽  
Complex Interactions ◽  
Multiple Dimensions ◽  
The World ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Leading Schools ◽  
Future Theory

Postinternational theory in international relations (IR) theory offers an alternative to the state-centric perspectives on the world that have dominated IR theory. A state-centric approach is far too restrictive. Despite the resurgence of populist nationalism, contemporary scholars are much more aware than in the past of the enormous variety of states, the important distinction between state and nation, the fact that states, even at the policy-making level, are not unitary actors, and the recurring possibility that violence will be intrastate or trans-state rather than interstate. It is apparent, too, that the stage of global politics is crowded by countless actors of different types, whose complex interactions substantially determine the intermediate and longer-range scenes in particular dramas. Moreover, the flow of events significantly reflects not only such ideational factors as competing identities, ideologies, and mental spaces, but also the pace and volume of globalization in its multiple dimensions and related localization dynamics that include resistance to globalization. Postinternational theory embodies the foregoing worldview. It shares some areas of agreement with leading schools of IR theory, but provides a much better foundation for future theory building as well as a policy-relevant way of thinking about the world and analyzing global political issues.

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