scholarly journals A Model of Academic Journal Quality with Applications to Open-Access Journals

2004 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark J. McCabe ◽  
Christopher M. Snyder
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Academic Journal ◽  
Journal Quality ◽  
Open Access Journals

scholarly journals Editorial V.13, N1, 2015

2015 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 5
Author(s):  
REB Revista de Ensino de Bioquímica
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Molecular Biology ◽  
Rio De Janeiro ◽  
Academic Journal ◽  
International Union ◽  
Open Access Journals

Editorial 2015 - 1Este número é dedicado ao professor Leopoldo de Meis, titular do Instituto de Bioquímica Médica (IBqM) da Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), um dos grandes pesquisadores em Bioquímica que se dedicou, entre suas atividades, para o ensino de Bioquímica e divulgação da Ciência. Para homenageá-lo, teremos um breve relato do professor Wagner Seixas da Silva (IBqM – UFRJ).Destacamos que o professor Wagner teve sua iniciação na acadêmia, ainda no ensino médio, por meio de um programa coordenado pelo professor Leopoldo. Tal experiência o motivou ao ingresso na UFRJ e desde então seguiu os passos do grande mestre Leopoldo, dando continuidade aos seus projetos na área educacional.A partir desde número iniciamos, dentro da seção editorial, a divulgação de materiais (livros, softwares, vídeos, jogos entre outros) e portais educacionais na área de escopo da revista, visando ampliar a divulgação destes para a comunidade.Buscando ampliar a divulgação da revista e sua indexação, neste semestre a REB foi inserida em duas bases internacionais: Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) e Open Academic Journal Index (OAJI).Este ano, ocorrerá no Brasil a reunião da International Union of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (IUBMB), com a reunião anual da SBBq. O evento ocorrerá em Foz do Iguaçu, de 24 a 28 de agosto de 2015 (http://www.sbbq.org.br/iubmb2015). Destacamos que estão previstas atividades na área de educação, incluindo simpósios e apresentação de trabalhos por meio de painéis. Atenciosamente Bayardo B. Torres - USPEduardo Galembeck - UnicampGabriel Gerber Hornink - Unifal-MGVera Maria T. Trindade - UFRGS

scholarly journals Becoming Editor: Or, Pinocchio finally notices the Strings

2013 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 461-474 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin Parker
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Journal Editor ◽  
Academic Journal ◽  
Open Access Journals ◽  
The Social ◽  
History Of ◽  
Set Up ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Forms Of Knowledge

This paper uses my experience as an academic journal editor in order to reflect upon the social arrangement that brings academics, universities, states and knowledge capitalist organizations together to produce the contemporary academic journal and access paywalls. After some consideration of the history of publishing, I analyse the market for articles like this one, and considerthe consequences of the ranking and monetization of journals, papers andcitations by different agents. As I do this, I insert various biographical reflections on the relationship between ‘editing’ and being ‘edited’. The overall aim of the paper is to suggest that this set-up actually has some verynegative consequences for taxpayers, academics and students. It encourages the overproduction of academic output because it turns it into a commodity which is traded, whilst simultaneously tending to discourage forms of knowledge production that fail to fit into the boxes which have already been establishedfor them, whether in terms of content or style. I conclude with some thoughts on open access journals, and their limits.

scholarly journals Becoming Editor: Or, Pinocchio finally notices the Strings

2013 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 461-474
Author(s):  
Martin Parker
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Journal Editor ◽  
Academic Journal ◽  
Open Access Journals ◽  
The Social ◽  
History Of ◽  
Set Up ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Forms Of Knowledge

This paper uses my experience as an academic journal editor in order to reflect upon the social arrangement that brings academics, universities, states and knowledge capitalist organizations together to produce the contemporary academic journal and access paywalls. After some consideration of the history of publishing, I analyse the market for articles like this one, and considerthe consequences of the ranking and monetization of journals, papers andcitations by different agents. As I do this, I insert various biographical reflections on the relationship between ‘editing’ and being ‘edited’. The overall aim of the paper is to suggest that this set-up actually has some verynegative consequences for taxpayers, academics and students. It encourages the overproduction of academic output because it turns it into a commodity which is traded, whilst simultaneously tending to discourage forms of knowledge production that fail to fit into the boxes which have already been establishedfor them, whether in terms of content or style. I conclude with some thoughts on open access journals, and their limits.

scholarly journals Faculty knowledge and attitudes regarding predatory open access journals: a needs assessment study

2020 ◽  
Vol 108 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephanie M. Swanberg ◽  
Joanna Thielen ◽  
Nancy Bulgarelli
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Educational Interventions ◽  
Medical Faculty ◽  
Chi Square ◽  
Journal Quality ◽  
Faculty Knowledge ◽  
Knowledge And Attitudes ◽  
Open Access Journals ◽  
School Faculty ◽  
Chi Square Tests

Objective: The purpose of predatory open access (OA) journals is primarily to make a profit rather than to disseminate quality, peer-reviewed research. Publishing in these journals could negatively impact faculty reputation, promotion, and tenure, yet many still choose to do so. Therefore, the authors investigated faculty knowledge and attitudes regarding predatory OA journals.Methods: A twenty-item questionnaire containing both quantitative and qualitative items was developed and piloted. All university and medical school faculty were invited to participate. The survey included knowledge questions that assessed respondents’ ability to identify predatory OA journals and attitudinal questions about such journals. Chi-square tests were used to detect differences between university and medical faculty.Results: A total of 183 faculty completed the survey: 63% were university and 37% were medical faculty. Nearly one-quarter (23%) had not previously heard of the term “predatory OA journal.” Most (87%) reported feeling very confident or confident in their ability to assess journal quality, but only 60% correctly identified a journal as predatory, when given a journal in their field to assess. Chi-square tests revealed that university faculty were more likely to correctly identify a predatory OA journal (p=0.0006) and have higher self-reported confidence in assessing journal quality, compared with medical faculty (p=0.0391).Conclusions: Survey results show that faculty recognize predatory OA journals as a problem. These attitudes plus the knowledge gaps identified in this study will be used to develop targeted educational interventions for faculty in all disciplines at our university.

Open Access and Academic Journal Quality

2005 ◽  
Vol 95 (2) ◽  
pp. 453-458 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark J McCabe ◽  
Christopher M Snyder
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Academic Journal ◽  
Journal Quality

Massive Open Access Publications

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matheus Pereira Lobo
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Substantial Reduction ◽  
Open Science ◽  
Science Culture ◽  
Open Access Journals ◽  
Article Processing Charges

A huge collaborative open science model is proposed. Many authors collaborating in a paper leads to a substantial reduction for the Article Processing Charges (APCs) in the Open Access Journals. This can significantly stimulate research within a healthier citizen and open science culture.

PEDAGOGY AND MODERN EDUCATION (ICPME) September 2019: сб.науч.тр./ RELF Group & OEAPS Inc.; редкол.: Каапо Кумпулайнен (отв.ред.) [и др.]. - Варшава, Польша : OEAPS Inc., 09. 2019. - 114 С. ISBN: 978-1697070392

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Гульдар Фанисовна Ибрагимова ◽  
Ольга Алексеевна Ковалевич ◽  
Раиса Николаевна Афонина ◽  
Елена Алексеевна Лесных ◽  
Яна Игоревна Ряполова ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Open Access Publishing ◽  
Impact Factors ◽  
Publication Ethics ◽  
European Academy ◽  
Creative Commons ◽  
Authorship Credit ◽  
Open Access Journals ◽  
Publishing Ethics ◽  
Article Processing Charges

Conference paper Covered by Leading Indexing DatabasesOpen European Academy of Public Sciences aims to have all of its journals covered by the Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE) and Scopus and Web of Science indexing systems. Several journals have already been covered by SCIE for several years and have received official Impact Factors. Some life sciencerelated journals are also covered by PubMed/MEDLINE and archived through PubMed Central (PMC). All of our journals are archived with the Spanish and Germany National Library.All Content is Open Access and Free for Readers Journals published by Open European Academy of Public Sciences are fully open access: research articles, reviews or any other content on this platform is available to everyone free of charge. To be able to provide open access journals, we finance publication through article processing charges (APC); these are usually covered by the authors’ institutes or research funding bodies. We offer access to science and the latest research to readers for free. All of our content is published in open access and distributed under a Creative Commons License, which means published articles can be freely shared and the content reused, upon proper attribution.Open European Academy of Public Sciences Publication Ethics StatementOpen European Academy of Public Sciences is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). Open European Academy of Public Sciences takes the responsibility to enforce a rigorous peerreview together with strict ethical policies and standards to ensure to add high quality scientific works to the field of scholarly publication. Unfortunately, cases of plagiarism, data falsification, inappropriate authorship credit, and the like, do arise. Open European Academy of Public Sciences takes such publishing ethics issues very seriously and our editors are trained to proceed in such cases with a zero tolerance policy. To verify the originality of content submitted to our journals, we use iThenticate to check submissions against previous publications.Mission and ValuesAs a pioneer of academic open access publishing, we serve the scientific community since 2009. Our aim is to foster scientific exchange in all forms, across all disciplines. In addition to being at the root of Open European Academy of Public Sciences and a key theme in our journals, we support sustainability by ensuring the longterm preservation of published papers, and the future of science through partnerships, sponsorships and awards.

scholarly journals Awareness of predatory journals and open access publishing among orthopaedic and trauma surgeons – results from an online survey in Germany

2021 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Elke Maurer ◽  
Nike Walter ◽  
Tina Histing ◽  
Lydia Anastasopoulou ◽  
Thaqif El Khassawna ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Online Survey ◽  
Early Stage ◽  
Peer Review Process ◽  
Trauma Surgery ◽  
Open Access Publishing ◽  
Predatory Journals ◽  
Open Access Journals ◽  
Trauma Surgeons

Abstract Background Along with emerging open access journals (OAJ) predatory journals increasingly appear. As they harm accurate and good scientific research, we aimed to examine the awareness of predatory journals and open access publishing among orthopaedic and trauma surgeons. Methods In an online survey between August and December 2019 the knowledge on predatory journals and OAJ was tested with a hyperlink made available to the participants via the German Society for Orthopaedics and Trauma Surgery (DGOU) email distributor. Results Three hundred fifty orthopaedic and trauma surgeons participated, of which 291 complete responses (231 males (79.4%), 54 females (18.6%) and 5 N/A (2.0%)) were obtained. 39.9% were aware of predatory journals. However, 21.0% knew about the “Directory of Open Access Journals” (DOAJ) as a register for non-predatory open access journals. The level of profession (e.g. clinic director, consultant) (p = 0.018) influenced the awareness of predatory journals. Interestingly, participants aware of predatory journals had more often been listed as corresponding authors (p < 0.001) and were well published as first or last author (p < 0.001). Awareness of OAJ was masked when journal selection options did not to provide any information on the editorial board, the peer review process or the publication costs. Conclusion The impending hazard of predatory journals is unknown to many orthopaedic and trauma surgeons. Early stage clinical researchers must be trained to differentiate between predatory and scientifically accurate journals.

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