scholarly journals Purposeful Evaluation of Scholarship in the Open Science Era

Challenges ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 6
Author(s):  
Mario Pagliaro
Keyword(s):  
Impact Factor ◽  
Doctoral Students ◽  
Open Science ◽  
High Impact ◽  
Early Career ◽  
Scholarly Activity ◽  
High Impact Factor ◽  
Academic Institutions ◽  
Early Career Researchers ◽  
Young Researchers

In most of the world’s countries, scholarship evaluation for tenure and promotion continues to rely on conventional criteria of publications in journals of high impact factor and achievements in securing research funds. Continuing to hire and promote scholars based on these criteria exposes universities to risk because students, directly and indirectly through government funds, are the main source of revenues for academic institutions. At the same time, talented young researchers increasingly look for professors renowned for excellence in mentoring doctoral students and early career researchers. Purposeful scholarship evaluation in the open science era needs to include all three areas of scholarly activity: research, teaching and mentoring, and service to society.

scholarly journals Purposeful evaluation of scholarship in the open science era

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mario Pagliaro
Keyword(s):  
At Risk ◽  
Impact Factor ◽  
Open Science ◽  
High Impact ◽  
Scholarly Activity ◽  
High Impact Factor ◽  
Academic Institutions ◽  
Grant Funding ◽  
Published Research ◽  
Young Researchers

In most world’s countries, scholarship evaluation for tenure and promotion continues to rely on conventional criteria of publications in journals of high impact factor and grant funding. Continuing to hire and promote scholars for their achievements in research and in securing research funds exposes universities at risk because students, directly and indirectly through government funds, are the main source of revenues for academic institutions, whereas talented young researchers are those who actually carry out most of the published research. Purposeful scholarship evaluation needs to include all three areas of scholarly activity: research, teaching and mentoring, and service to society. Young scholars seeking tenure and promotion benefit from the practice of open science because it provides better and more impactful results with respect to each of the three areas of scholarship.

scholarly journals Preprints in Chemistry: An Exploratory Analysis of Differences with Journal Articles

Publications ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 5
Author(s):  
Mario Pagliaro
Keyword(s):  
Doctoral Students ◽  
Scholarly Communication ◽  
Digital Age ◽  
Open Science ◽  
Exploratory Analysis ◽  
Journal Articles ◽  
Basic Sciences ◽  
Wealth Of Nations ◽  
New Education ◽  
Young Researchers

The exploratory analysis of the differences between preprints and the corresponding peer reviewed journal articles for ten studies first published on ChemRxiv and on Preprints, though statistically non-significant, suggests outcomes of relevance for chemistry researchers and educators. The full transition to open science requires new education of doctoral students and young researchers on scholarly communication in the digital age. The preliminary findings of this study will contribute to inform the curriculum of the aforementioned new courses for young chemists, eventually promoting accelerated innovation in a science that, unique amid all basic sciences, originates a huge industry central to the wealth of nations.

scholarly journals Picking up the pace: another record high impact factor for Cardiovascular Research

2020 ◽  
Vol 116 (12) ◽  
pp. e165-e168
Author(s):  
Adam M Sheikh ◽  
Heather Y Small ◽  
Charalambos Antoniades ◽  
Tomasz J Guzik
Keyword(s):  
Impact Factor ◽  
High Impact ◽  
High Impact Factor ◽  
Cardiovascular Research

scholarly journals Scientific output of Brazilian dermatologists during the last 25 years in the five highest impact factor journals in dermatology

2012 ◽  
Vol 87 (5) ◽  
pp. 714-716
Author(s):  
Mariane Da Cas de Aquim Martins ◽  
Marília Gabriela Linné Netto Carneiro ◽  
Joyce Benck Utzig ◽  
Eleolina Lara Kaled Neta ◽  
Majenna Andrade Pachnicki ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Impact Factor ◽  
Scientific Output ◽  
High Impact ◽  
Pemphigus Foliaceus ◽  
High Impact Factor ◽  
Controlled Clinical Trials ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Qualitative And Quantitative ◽  
Area Of Interest ◽  
Number Of Publications

BACKGROUND: The qualitative and quantitative scientific output of Brazilian dermatologists in journals of high impact factor is little known. OBJECTIVE: To describe the scientific output of dermatologists from Brazilian institutions in journals of high impact factor. METHODS: The five journals with the highest impact factor in dermatology were analyzed. All articles produced from Brazilian institutions between 1986 and 2010 were compiled and the following aspects were analyzed: position of Brazilian researchers in the list of authors, selected theme, experimental design, studied disease, area of interest and year of publication. RESULTS: Seventy-four articles written with the participation of Brazilian dermatologists have been identified. Upon grouping the articles in five-year periods, an important increase was observed in the Brazilian production from the year 2006 onwards. The dermatologists were placed as second authors in the majority of cases (53.66%). According to the selected theme to be studied, the majority of the articles had a laboratory focus (45.95%). The majority of the articles reported cross-sectional studies or non-controlled clinical trials (both at 17.57%), and pemphigus foliaceus was the most studied disease (29.73%). CONCLUSION: The increase in the number of publications by Brazilian dermatologists over the last years is encouraging, but it is still small in comparison to the total number of articles published in these five periodicals.

A Study of Availability and Recovery of URLs in Library and Information Science Scholarly Journals

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 51-61
Author(s):  
B. Niveditha ◽  
Mallinath Kumbar
Keyword(s):  
Impact Factor ◽  
Information Science ◽  
Editorial Staff ◽  
Time Travel ◽  
High Impact ◽  
Library And Information Science ◽  
High Impact Factor ◽  
Scholarly Journals ◽  
Web Archives ◽  
Research Findings

The present study examines the availability and recovery of web references cited in scholarly journals selected based on their high impact factor published between 2008 and 2017. A PHP script was used to crawl the Uniform Resource Locators (URL) collected from the references. A total of 5720 articles were downloaded and 237418 references were extracted. A total of 33512 URLs were checked for their availability. Further the lexical features of URLs like file extension, path depth, character length and top-level domain was determined. The research findings indicated that out of 33512 web references, 20218 contained URLs, DOIs were found in 12799 references and 495 references contained arXiv or WOS identifier. It was found that 29760 URLs were accessible and the remaining 3752 URLs were missing. Most errors were due to HTTP 404 error code (Not found error). The study also tried to recover the inaccessible URLs through Time Travel. Almost 60.55% of inaccessible URLs were archived in various web archives. The findings of the study will be helpful to authors, publishers, and editorial staff to ensure that web references will be accessible in future.

scholarly journals investigadores junior españoles y su implicación en la ciencia abierta

2021 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Blanca Rodríguez-Bravo ◽  
David Nicholas
Keyword(s):  
Critical Factor ◽  
Open Science ◽  
Early Career ◽  
Attitudes And Practices ◽  
Early Career Researchers ◽  
Precarious Situation

El objetivo es indagar en las actitudes y prácticas de los jóvenes investigadores españoles hacia la ciencia abierta. Se analiza su interés por compartir en abierto publicaciones y datos, por colaborar con otros investigadores y stakeholders, por difundir su investigación y por perseguir el impacto de los resultados científicos. La metodología se fundamenta en entrevistas y encuestas dirigidas a Early Career Researchers (ECRs) españoles. Los resultados muestran el interés de los investigadores noveles por la ciencia abierta, pero también la necesidad de reconocimiento de las acciones implicadas en ella como requisito para su consolidación entre investigadores en situación precaria. La financiación es también un factor crítico a considerar. The aim is to investigate the attitudes and practices of Spanish Early Career Researchers (ECRs) towards open science. Their interest in sharing openly publications and data, in collaborating with other researchers and stakeholders, in disseminating their research and in looking for results’ impact is analyzed. The methodology is based on interviews and surveys directed to Spanish Early Career Researchers (ECRs). The results show the interest of novice researchers in open science, but also the need for recognition of the actions involved in it as a requirement for its consolidation among researchers in a precarious situation. Funding is a critical factor to be considered as well.

scholarly journals Open Science challenges, benefits and tips in early career and beyond

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher P G Allen ◽  
David Marc Anton Mehler
Keyword(s):  
Open Science ◽  
Early Career ◽  
Incentive Structure ◽  
Science Practices ◽  
Early Career Researchers ◽  
Early Adoption

The movement towards open science is an unavoidable consequence of seemingly pervasive failures to replicate previous research. This transition comes with great benefits but also significant challenges that are likely to afflict those who carry out the research, usually Early Career Researchers (ECRs). Here, we describe key benefits including reputational gains, increased chances of publication and a broader increase in the reliability of research. These are balanced by challenges that we have encountered, and which involve increased costs in terms of flexibility, time and issues with the current incentive structure, all of which seem to affect ECRs acutely. Although there are major obstacles to the early adoption of open science, overall open science practices should benefit both the ECR and improve the quality and plausibility of research. We review three benefits, three challenges and provide suggestions from the perspective of ECRs for moving towards open science practices.

scholarly journals Exciting perspectives for Translational Myology in the Abstracts of the 2018Spring PaduaMuscleDays: Giovanni Salviati Memorial – Chapter III - Abstracts of March 16, 2018

2018 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ugo Carraro
Keyword(s):  
Skeletal Muscle ◽  
Impact Factor ◽  
Skeletal Muscles ◽  
High Impact ◽  
Research Center ◽  
Bacterial Toxin ◽  
High Impact Factor ◽  
Half Century ◽  
High Level ◽  
The University

Myologists working in Padua (Italy) were able to continue a half-century tradition of studies of skeletal muscles, that started with a research on fever, specifically if and how skeletal muscle contribute to it by burning bacterial toxin. Beside main publications in high-impact-factor journals by Padua myologists, I hope to convince readers (and myself) of the relevance of the editing Basic and Applied Myology (BAM), retitled from 2010 European Journal of Translational Myology (EJTM), of the institution of the Interdepartmental Research Center of Myology of the University of Padova (CIR-Myo), and of a long series of International Conferences organized in Euganei Hills and Padova, that is, the PaduaMuscleDays. The 2018Spring PaduaMuscleDays (2018SpPMD), were held in Euganei Hills and Padua (Italy), in March 14-17, and were dedicated to Giovanni Salviati. The main event of the “Giovanni Salviati Memorial”, was held in the Aula Guariento, Accademia Galileiana di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti of Padua to honor a beloved friend and excellent scientist 20 years after his premature passing. Using the words of Prof. Nicola Rizzuto, we all share his believe that Giovanni “will be remembered not only for his talent and originality as a biochemist, but also for his unassuming and humanistic personality, a rare quality in highly successful people like Giovanni. The best way to remember such a person is to gather pupils and colleagues, who shared with him the same scientific interests and ask them to discuss recent advances in their own fields, just as Giovanni have liked to do”. Since Giovanni’s friends sent many abstracts still influenced by their previous collaboration with him, all the Sessions of the 2018SpPMD reflect both to the research aims of Giovanni Salviati and the traditional topics of the PaduaMuscleDays, that is, basics and applications of physical, molecular and cellular strategies to maintain or recover functions of skeletal muscles. The translational researches summarized in the 2018SpPMD Abstracts are at the appropriate high level to attract approval of Ethical Committees, the interest of International Granting Agencies and approval for publication in top quality, international journals. The abstracts of the March 16, 2018 Padua Muscle Day are listed in this chapter III. All 2018SpPMD Abstracts are indexed at the end of the Chapter IV.

scholarly journals Year in Review: Synopsis of Selected Articles in Neuroanesthesia and Neurocritical Care from 2018

2019 ◽  
Vol 06 (01) ◽  
pp. 018-023
Author(s):  
Kyle J. Rogan ◽  
Tumul Chowdhury ◽  
Lakshmikumar Venkatraghavan
Keyword(s):  
Critical Care ◽  
England Journal ◽  
American Medical Association ◽  
Medical Association ◽  
Impact Factor ◽  
New England ◽  
American Medical ◽  
Neurocritical Care ◽  
High Impact ◽  
High Impact Factor

AbstractThis review is a synopsis of selected articles from neuroscience, neuroanesthesia, and neurocritical care from the year 2018 (January–October 2018). The journals reviewed included anesthesia journals, critical care medicine journals, neurosurgical journals as well as high-impact factor medical journals such as Lancet, Journal of American Medical Association (JAMA), New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM), and Stroke. This summary of important articles will serve to update the knowledge of anesthesiologists and other perioperative physicians who provide care to neurosurgical and neurocritical patients.

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